by Here is an op-ed of mine, which ran this weekend in the Wall Street Journal, in which I offer some thoughts about the religious composition of the Court, how it might have come to be what it is, and whether it matters. A taste:
Those who founded our nation would certainly have been surprised by much of what goes on now at the Supreme Court—free-speech cases about online child pornography, search-and-seizure disputes involving thermal-imaging devices, and so on. Even more surprising to them than the Court’s work, though, would have been the Court’s current makeup. Its nine members include two Jews and six Roman Catholics. And Justice John Paul Stevens, the Court’s lone Protestant member, recently announced his plans to step down. . . .
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