I was idly Googling the US Supreme Court last night (the justices never seem to be out of the news lately what with overturning Roe v Wade and yesterday's ruling limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants) when I came across a table in Wikipedia.
Name | Religion | Appt. by | On the Court since |
---|---|---|---|
John Roberts (Chief Justice) | Catholicism | G.W. Bush | 2005 |
Clarence Thomas | Catholicism | G.H.W. Bush | 1991 |
Samuel Alito | Catholicism | G.W. Bush | 2006 |
Sonia Sotomayor | Catholicism | Obama | 2009 |
Elena Kagan | Judaism | Obama | 2010 |
Neil Gorsuch | Anglicanism/Catholicism | Trump | 2017 |
Brett Kavanaugh | Catholicism | Trump | 2018 |
Amy Coney Barrett | Catholicism | Trump | 2020 |
Ketanji Brown Jackson | Protestantism | Biden | 2022 |
I am astonished this isn't bigger news. To put it in context there have only ever been two Catholic presidents; JFK and Joe Biden. Neither known for their piety, or devotion to canon law. To be honest I am bemused that Biden, and Nancy Pelosi for that matter, haven't been excommunicated.
"This one will run and run," Fergus Cashin - Irish Cardiff Catholic“™”.
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