If Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will be only the 12th Roman Catholic justice in history. But what is remarkable is that six of those 12, if you include her, will be on the Court that convenes in October.
“There’s an arc of history with seats on the Court that starts with a group that was discriminated against, then it develops and reaches a peak and assimilation, and then it no longer becomes an issue,” says political scientist Barbara Perry of Sweet Briar College, a Court scholar who is working on a book on the Catholic justices.
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