The Dwindling Jewish Representation And Evolving Composition Of The U.S. Supreme Court

United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan poses for an official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on October 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court has begun a new term after Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially added to the bench in September. (ALEX WONG/GETTY) 

Here’s a joke: “A Jew, a black and a hispanic walk into a bar… association…. ”

It’s not really a joke, but rather a colorful way of describing the composition of liberal Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, as embodied by justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, in order of seniority.