One problem with public complaints about how the Justices making
various decisions are Catholics, and how about that surely influences their
views -- besides, of course, than Mark Graber's point that such influence is
pretty hard to show, given that their more general political ideologies may be
the better explanation - is that it might easily lead people to wonder why, in
a nation that's 2% Jewish, we should have three Jewish Justices, or for that
matter even one. The same is true if the concern is simply that Catholics are
overrepresented on the Court, and that we should instead seek a nation that
worships like America, or reflects America's demographics. As a Jew (albeit a
secular one), that's not a discussion that I'd prefer to see.
Eugene
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