Religion of Supreme Court Justices

Catholics and Jews are far overrepresented on the Supreme Court compared to the number of Catholics and Jews in the USA. What significance does this have, if any? This thought was inspired by O'Connor's comment that perhaps there should be more Protestant presence on the Court.

http://www.adherents.com/adh_sc.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100406/ap_on_re_us/us_sandra_day_o_connor

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Catholics and Jews are far overrepresented on the Supreme Court compared to the number of Catholics and Jews in the USA. What significance does this have, if any? This thought was inspired by O'Connor's comment that perhaps there should be more Protestant presence on the Court.

http://www.adherents.com/adh_sc.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100406/ap_on_re_us/us_sandra_day_o_connor

What about agnostics and atheists? I'd say they were underrepresented by far.

Originally posted by rwingett
What about agnostics and atheists? I'd say they were underrepresented by far.

True, but they don't constitute a voting majority.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
True, but they don't constitute a voting majority.

Neither do Jews and Catholics.

Originally posted by rwingett
Neither do Jews and Catholics.

Protestants do, however. Thus they can realistically do something about it.

I'd love to see atheists up there, you should know that by now. We're just a persecuted minority without enough political clout to make it happen.

Woe is us 😞

Originally posted by rwingett
What about agnostics and atheists? I'd say they were underrepresented by far.

Maybe then they would overturn Roe vs. Wade. 😛