Political Factoid
Six of the U.S. Supreme Court justices
are conservatives (a super majority),
and six justices are Roman Catholic*.
Justice |
Religious Affiliation |
Political Inclination |
Appointed by |
Comment |
Neil Gorsuch |
Evangelical |
Conservative - extreme |
Trump |
Opposes Roe vs. Wade |
Amy Coney Barrett |
Roman Catholic, very |
Conservative - extremely and decidedly |
Trump |
Promised to overturn Rowe-vs-Wade, Obamacare, and Brown-vs-Education and enforce voting restrictions |
Brett Kavanaugh |
Roman Catholic |
Conservative - extremely and decidedly |
Trump |
Promised to overturn Rowe-vs-Wade |
Clarence Thomas |
Roman Catholic |
Conservative - Most |
H.W. Bush |
Catholic convert - Abortion foe |
John Roberts |
Roman Catholic |
Conservative - consistently |
G.W.Bush |
(Chief Justice) |
Samuel Alito |
Roman Catholic |
Conservative - consistently |
G.W. Bush |
- |
Sonia Sotomayor |
Roman Catholic |
Progressive - consistently |
Obama |
- |
Elena Kagan |
Conservative Judaism |
Progressive - centrist |
Obama |
- |
Ketanji Brown Jackson |
Non-denominational Protestant |
Liberal leaning |
Biden |
- |
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Six of the U.S. Supreme Court justices are
Roman Catholic (a super majority), one is Jewish,
and two are Protestant (albeit not mainline).
-- Not representative of the nation's
religious demographics
(And heaven forbid there be any of the other religions represented.)
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cf. |
2049,
26988 (Religious demographics)
20135,
25122,
25122,
20132,
20125,
25123,
25098,
25095,
20133,
20118,
20117
1400 (Court before election of Donald Trump)
20136 (Court prior to death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020.)
25211 (Court after death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020.)
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