Before Antonin Scalia died, the United States Supreme Court was composed of six Catholics (Scalia, Alito, Roberts, Thomas, Kennedy, and Sotomayor) and three Jews (Breyer, Kagan, and Ginsburg). President Barack Obama has nominated Merrick Garland, a Jew, to replace Scalia, which would make it five Catholics and four Jews. (Jews make up 2.2% of the population of the United States, but would have 44.4% of the Supreme Court seats.) Five of the justices would be graduates of Harvard Law School, three of Yale Law School, and one (Ginsburg) of Columbia Law School. All are Ivy League schools. Isn't it time we had a Protestant and someone from a non-Ivy?
Addendum: Here is Ed Whelan's take at Bench Memos (National Review Online).
Addendum 2: Here is the New York Times report.
