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The '''demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States''' encompass the [[gender]], [[ethnicity]], and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the 116 people who have been appointed and confirmed as justices to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]]. Some of these characteristics have been raised as an issue since the court was established in 1789. For its first 180 years and beyond, justices were almost always [[White people|white]] [[Man|male]] [[Protestantism|Protestants]] of [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant|Anglo]] or [[Northwestern Europe]]an descent.<ref name="SegalSpaeth2002_p183">{{cite book
|last=[[#SegalSpaeth2002|Segal and Spaeth]] |year=2002
|title=The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited|page=183}}</ref>
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