Religious prejudice in Supreme Court appointments collapsed completely within a century

Evidence

When Woodrow Wilson nominated Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court in 1916, the very thought of a Jewish justice was gall and wormwood to millions. Yet a hundred years later, in 2016, at a time when the Supreme Court was a political flash point, there were three Jewish justices; and all of the other justices were Catholics. Not a single Protestant sat on the Court which they once monopolized. Nobody, apparently, seemed to care. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 4014

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Religious demographics historically shaped Supreme Court seat allocation — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 523

Broader Connections

• Religious demographics historically shaped Supreme Court seat allocation #qualifies (0.85) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 523