Something I wasn’t previously aware of, but U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is Catholic:
Jane Roberts has been active in Feminists for Life, and is a member of the board of governors of the John Carroll Society, a Catholic lay organisation that sponsors the annual Washington archdiocesan Red Mass before the opening of the Supreme Court term.
If confirmed, Roberts would be the 11th Catholic ever to serve on the court and the fourth among current members, joining Justices Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia.Senate confirmation hearings are unlikely to begin before early September. The Supreme Court term begins on 3 October.
Now the left has been sabre-rattling already (CBS’s American Prospect column starts it’s interrogation beginning with “Let’s begin with Roberts’ women problem.”). Of course, being Catholic doesn’t demonstrate as much as it used to — Justice Kennedy is Catholic and certainly doesn’t uphold Catholic values from the bench.
We’ll see how the confirmation hearings play out, but this is certainly something in Roberts background that plays to his favor.