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Last Protestant Supreme Court Justice Resigns
Nirvana
aka BUBBA ` ` South Carolina, USA Veteran
Last Protestant Christian Supreme Court Justice Resigns
Justice John Paul Stevens will step down in June. A life-long Republican, appointed by President Ford in 1975, his was a more liberal voice on the High Court. He was the sole remaining Protestant Christian on the Court after Justice David Souter, an Episcopalian, resigned last June.
Now, the highest court of the land of this historically vehemently Protestant nation will be without a member of this group unless President Obama nominates another Protestant. Does anyone else find this fact even a bit interesting?
Two of the other eight are Jewish, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but the remaining six are Roman Catholic:
Chief Justice Roberts
Kennedy
Scalia
Thomas
Alito
Sotomayor
Justice John Paul Stevens will step down in June. A life-long Republican, appointed by President Ford in 1975, his was a more liberal voice on the High Court. He was the sole remaining Protestant Christian on the Court after Justice David Souter, an Episcopalian, resigned last June.
Now, the highest court of the land of this historically vehemently Protestant nation will be without a member of this group unless President Obama nominates another Protestant. Does anyone else find this fact even a bit interesting?
Two of the other eight are Jewish, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but the remaining six are Roman Catholic:
Chief Justice Roberts
Kennedy
Scalia
Thomas
Alito
Sotomayor
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Comments
A bit interesting, but not of much importance. After all, Catholicism is no guarantee of a certain ideology. Judging by the 08 election, I'd say Catholics split about 50/50 between Republican and Democrat in the general public.
Personally, I find the individual justices' interpretations of the Constitution much more interesting. If the court had 9 black lesbian Jews who were strict constructionists, I would be quite happy!
I wasn't thinking of any linkages between denominational identification and ideology or anything else, for that matter. I'm just interested in the demographic facts.
Demographics just happen to interest me. Another fact that I find of great interest is that this country has never elected a Lutheran president, despite their great number and German nearly having become the official language once or twice in our history. Most presidents have historically been either Episcopalian or Presbyterian. Indeed as few Episcopalians and Quakers as we have in this country per capita, we have even had two Quaker presidents (Hoover and Nixon).
I'll betcha members of the Ku Klux Klan are rolling over in their graves with the Supreme Court potentially being comprised solely of Catholics and Jews.
Interesting things like this amaze me and make me laugh.
Is that OK?
Be Well, KoB!
Palzang
John Paul Stevens will truly be missed. He's the last remaining veteran on the court, having enlisted the day before Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 6, 1941. His offerings included an uncanny ability to get the ears of more conservative justices on key issues and influencing the court to make more reasoned, objective decisions.
I'm afraid that a bunch of self-serving demagogues in the opposition will do their utmost to use the president's nomination as a focal-point for negative political propaganda. I just hope that the president will not let this probability affect his choice. It seems to me that they'll damn him either way, so he might just as well do the right thing and follow the dicates of his own conscience and understanding. Those that are declaring that if Obama's not the Antichrist he's his forerunner wouldn't be happy if he chose Oren Hatch, anyway.
Palzang
I get chills.
All the best,
Jellybean