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"But those pushing for a female nominee say the need on the court isn't only a matter of perception."It goes far beyond my own selfish interest to have my daughter grow up and be able to look at this highest court and see people who look like her," says Hannah Brenner, executive director of the University of Texas Center for Women in Law. Rather, Ms. Brenner contends that the court, and the country, benefits from people with varying experiences and viewpoints.

“Having public disclosure in a courtroom about what happened, that’s part of the public record. There’s a real power in that,” said Hannah Brenner, a professor at California Western School of Law who researches the intersection of law and gender, focusing specifically on sexual assault, institutions and disparate power dynamics. That these women have banded together is particularly powerful. “There’s a tendency for us to dismiss sexual violence as a one-off,” Brenner said. Collectively, these women are a force more difficult to ignore.

“There didn’t appear to be a lot of explicitly racist or sexist questions that were asked, but there was very much an implicit bias in the tone, in the repetition of questions, in the condescension,”