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 id
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Thanking Step Feldman for his mention, the empirical studies that Michael
Heise, Andrew Morriss, and I have conducted on religious liberty decisions in
the federal courts did indeed find that religion was an important factor on
Free Exercise decisions - but it tended to the religion of the claim
Cardozo wrote that sometimes he had trouble deciding cases then the answer
would just come to him while walking down the street - -and then he had to put
that insight into the legal framework we accept as proper. Surely the same is
true today on major cases and even in cases where the result is
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Paul is correct on all counts. I'd be even stronger in emphasizing that none of
the current justices has
ealt the day-to-day legal issues that most
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Paul is
One problem with religion at present is that it is very, very, very unclear
whether religion is doing any work at all. Consider the obvious. The five
most religious Catholics on the court were appointed by conservative Republican
presidents. The three Jews and the least religious Catholic on
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>>> case that the justices' life experiences--jobs, schools, politics,
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>>> John Bickers
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>>> Northern Kent
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mmon symbol" of the dead, how can it not be the case that
>> the justices' life experiences--jobs, schools, politics, faith--are playing
>> a role in how they decide cases?
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>> John Bickers
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Well, one thing that might fo
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