Final
Countdown?
Elena Kagan Confirmation Would
Represent
Obama's Plan Of First
Time In 221 Years Having No
Protestant
Christian Representation On Supreme
Court
If
Elena Kagan, President Obama’s
nominee to
the Supreme Court, is confirmed, the
nation’s high court will be, for the
first
time in its history, devoid of
Protestants.
Kagan is Jewish, as are Justices
Stephen
Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. All
of the
other justices—Chief Justice John
Roberts,
Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy,
Antonin
Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Sonia
Sotomayor—are
Catholic. How did this situation
come about
in a historically
Protestant-dominated
country? And should evangelicals be
concerned? It’s important to note
that the
composition of the Supreme Court has
never
reflected the composition of the
country.
All justices were white until the
appointment of Thurgood Marshall in
1967,
and all justices were male until the
appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor
in
1981. When President Andrew Jackson
appointed the court’s first Catholic
member, Roger Taney, in 1836, the
Roman
Catholic Church was already well on
its way
to becoming the country’s largest
single
Christian body. Most justices have
also
shared connections to a small group
of elite
schools. Harvard Law School trained
the
highest number, 14 justices,
including five
members of the current court.
(Justice
Ginsburg attended HLS but graduated
from
Columbia.) Kagan, a graduate and
former dean
of HLS, would make a sixth.--
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