Tag: John Paul Stevens

Here’s the kind of question that might violate the rules you learned about proper dinner conversation: Does President Obama’s next Supreme Court nominee need to be a Protestant?

If Justice John Paul Stevens decides to call it a career after he turns 90 next month, the Supreme Court would for the first time in its history be without a justice belonging to America’s largest religious affiliations.

Today’s Supreme Court is composed of six Catholics, two Jews and one Protestant.  Dahlia Litwick asks why we are afraid to question whether justices’ religions impact their decisions.