EVEN BY HER STANDARDS THAT'S IDIOTIC:

Articles of Faith (Dahlia Lithwick, Dec. 10, 2009, Slate)

When Justice John Paul Stevens, who is 89, retires—and he's expected to in the next year or so—there will be no Protestant left on the highest court in the land. Will President Obama be pressured to appoint one? Popular opinion once held that even one Catholic was too many on the court. Today there are six. But would anyone even notice if Obama appointed a seventh to replace Stevens? Once upon a time, there was an outright religious litmus test for Supreme Court appointees. Today religion is almost irrelevant in appointing new justices.

Catholics dominate because the Pope is the most reliably pro-Life figure on Earth.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 10, 2009 8:43 PM