Adam Liptak, at the NYT, has an article about a new study of the left-right politics of lawyers, law profs, and judges. (h/t: Overlawyered) Not too surprisingly, government lawyers are the farthest left leaning, then law profs. Lawyers are more liberal than the US population and it seems that lawyers from the higher ranked schools are somewhat more liberal than other lawyers. Judges more closely reflect the middle of the US's political spectrum. The article offers competing theses for why judges don't mirror the lawyers: either politics have distorted the judicial selection process, or, perhaps, politics have not. Ha. I suppose your views on that might reflect your own politics. I couldn't help but think of that old adage that the courts rarely stray far from public opinion.