Religion Q and A: How Catholics Became Majority on the U.S. Supreme Court (Washington

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With the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court soon might have six Catholic justices. What makes that potential super majority even more remarkable is that there have been only 11 Catholic justices in the court's history and none during its first 50 years. How did we get to this point? Barbara Perry, a scholar of the Supreme Court and professor at Sweet Briar College, is working ...

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