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Reply #20 on: October 26, 2020, 06:30:40 PM

I think it's dumb that Democrats are being warned not to attack Barrett because of her religion.  I say they should when her particular sect of Catholicism, that's not Catholic at all, is bat-shit crazy.

Furthermore, we already have five Catholic Justices on the Supreme Court, while Catholics only represent 20% of the US population.  Maybe we need more diversity on the court?

Currently we have on the court:

John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice  - Roman Catholic
Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice,   - Roman Catholic
Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice, Judaism
Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice,   - Roman Catholic
Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice,   - Roman Catholic
Elena Kagan, Associate Justice, Judaism
Neil Gosuch, raised Roman Catholic, but now Episcopalian
Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice,   - Roman Catholic

So where are the Unitarians and Methodists?  Or maybe even a Muslim or Hindu? And what about the 26% of Americans who describe their religion as none?


The Supreme Court has never been strictly reflective of American demographics, nor should it be. The Court does not represent the American people, it represents the American constitution and American law.

When Barrett takes her seat on the court, this would be hardly the first time that Catholics have held a large majority of Court seats. In 2012, the Supreme Court also contained six Catholics: Alito, Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, Sotomayor, and Kennedy. And all those Catholics were nominated by Protestant presidents, and all were confirmed by Senates comprised of a majority of Protestants.

Along with the six Catholics, the other members of that Court were Jewish. That's right: 33% of the Justices were Jewish, while Jews represent less than 3% of the U.S. population. On top of that, there were zero Protestants on that Court, while Protestants represent at least 44% of the U.S.population. Where was the outrage?

Discussions like this seem to miss one small but vitally important line in Article VI of the U.S. Constitution:

"No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

On top of that, these discussions smack of the creeping anti-Catholicism that was prominent in the 19th and early 20th centuries. I am not exaggerating, chiefly because these justices are being viewed by the fact they are Catholic, and based on stereotypes of Catholics, and not by their qualifications for office as jurists. Every American should find that highly disturbing and very objectionable.

Most to the point, even a very cursory knowledge of the decisions and opinions made by these Catholic Supreme Court justices shows that they in no way base their decisions on the dictates of their faith, and Catholics sit on both “wings” of the court, and they are (or were) neither all "conservative” or all “liberal."







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Reply #21 on: October 27, 2020, 02:11:11 AM
Yeas 52, Neas 48 Final Senate Vote, 806pm, October 26, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed as Associate Justice, SCOTUS.

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas will attend her Swearing In
  tonight at the White House.

And then there were NINE Supreme Court Justices once again.


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