Benjamin Barton expert in the history of the Supreme Court contrasts our current Supreme Court Justices to past greats to expose a narrower intellectual and experiential diversity on todays high court.ampamp34As Ben Bartons fascinating book makes clear Supreme Court Justices of a past age were much more interesting people than those of today.ampamp34.ampamp34ampamp160Glenn Harlan Reynolds Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law University of TennesseeThe Credentialed Court starts by establishing just how different todayampamp8217s Justices are from their predecessors. The book combines two massive empirical studies of every Justiceampamp8217s background from John Jay to Amy Coney Barrett with short readable bios of past greats to demonstrate that todayampamp8217s Justices arrive on the Court with much narrower experiences than they once did. Todayampamp8217s Justices have spent more time in elite academic settings both as students and faculty than any previous Court.