I was thinking about this the other day and, frankly, I don't see a problem with their being gender super-minorities on the US Supreme Court. What do I mean by a 'super-minority'? Basically, I propose that there be a Constitutional Amendment whereby a majority minus one of the Supreme Court be women and men. Currently that would mean that there would be a legal requirement that four justices be men and four justices be women. The ninth justice would be the Chief Justice and would be of alternating gender--that is, if the previous Chief Justice was a man, then a woman would have to be appointed from the current pool of sitting Supreme Court justices who happened to be women. If the previous Chief Justice were a woman then the Chief Justice would have to be appointed from the pool of sitting Supreme Court justices who happened to be men.

Just a thought. Comments?