Infographic: President Obama's Judicial Nominees

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1. K & R. n/t

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2. Please for a link

I want to use this

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3. It's at the

WH site:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infographics/judicial-nominees

If you right click on the image and select properties, you can copy the url

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7. Thanks

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4. Our Constitution prohibts using a religious test for office.

So why are there no mainstream protestants on the Supreme Court?

How did it happen that so many Catholics are serving?

Just seems odd to me. Any possible explanations?

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5. No idea, but

Our Constitution prohibts using a religious test for office.

So why are there no mainstream protestants on the Supreme Court?

How did it happen that so many Catholics are serving?

Just seems odd to me. Any possible explanations?

...it seems to me that conservatives often use the Constitution to justify the status quo.

[Jim Lane]

6. The current makeup of the Court reflects that prohibition

If there were a religious test, it would presumably provide for "representation" on the Court for major religious groups, in approximate proportion to their numbers in the population.

In the absence of a religious test, the long-term result would tend toward such proportionality. In the short term, however, happenstance can produce swings above or below the expected numbers. No one would be surprised if it turned out, for example, that all of the current Justices have Social Security numbers ending in an odd digit. That's unlikely, but not impossible.

Of course, in the real world, religion plays more of a role than Social Security numbers. Nevertheless, if there were anything like a religious test, then Obama would never have appointed Sotomayor, leaving the Court with no Protestants.

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8. K & R