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(51,591 posts)is a heavy duty Catholic. He is the key person who made the SCOTUS as they are today.
"Enter the Federalist Society, a group of leading legal minds on the right who set about drafting a list of judges that they could inform friendly politicians they wanted to see promoted. The evangelicals could also lobby their captive politicians."
"Conservative Catholics fitted the bill. To say the tactic worked is understating it. Every one of Trumps appointments to the Supreme Court were recommended by the Federalist Society."
"Indeed, once again, in the Coney Barrett case, the Federalist Society gave its seal of approval to Coney Barrett."
"Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo even took a leave of absence to personally oversee the process. Coney Barrett was the result, as were previous Trump justices, Brett Kavanagh and Neil Gorsuch. "
"The Federalist Society had completed a very clever strategy that amounted to a coup, and they got exactly what they were looking for. Their choices could change America forever."
"The court was once the bastion of white WASPs and all male. It is extraordinary to note that all current justices are either Catholics or Jews with the exception of Gorsuch, raised a Catholic but who later converted to Protestantism."
https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/catholic-coup-supreme-court