A Call for FDR Court Packing

Ruth Marcus at WaPo laments the lack of diversity on the Supreme Court:

[I]magine an all-male, all-white Supreme Court. No president looking at a high court vacancy would consider that acceptable in this day and age, nor should he -- or she. A court with a lone female justice -- or, for that matter, a lone African American justice, or no Hispanic justice at all -- isn't all that much better.

Put aside the entire problem with the diversity notion (that people of different races and gender can't understand each other or think like each other, thus giving way to constant suspicion and hatred). Let's just do Marcus' math for her. She says a lone woman, African American, and Hispanic isn't enough. Alright, so we need to reserve six slots for those people. And what about the Jews and Orientals? Perhaps she would agree to just one of each of them, bringing us to eight. We also need a disabled person, I assume, if nothing else so s/he can interpret the Americans with Disabilities Act properly. That's nine. But we still haven't assured a spot for a white guy, a homosexual, or a transgendered goat rider. We'll need three more spots: twelve. And we haven't taken into account geographical distinctions (do we need someone from the Midwest, the South, the East, and the West?) or religions (one Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, and Muslim). If we throw those categories into the mix, we need 20 justices, and even then some would be excluded from the party.