The Credentialed Court starts by establishing just how different todays Justices are from their predecessors. The book combines two massive empirical studies of every Justices background from John Jay to Amy Coney Barrett with short readable bios of past greats to demonstrate that todays Justices arrive on the Court with much narrower experiences than they once did. Todays Justices have spent more time in elite academic settings both as students and faculty than any previous Court. Every current