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« Reply #50 on: August 06, 2021, 11:05:52 PM » |
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No. That's anti-religious (and therefore very anti-First Amendment). The religious right has too much of a say, currently, in the Supreme Court composition (thanks to Trump alone appointing three pro-life judges - Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett), but banning all 'religious' people from serving would: #1.) Be anti-religious and anti-First Amendment. #2.) Be difficult to enforce - how do you necessarily know if someone's religious? The meaning of 'religious' would also be questioned. #3.) Ultimately alienate a large segment of the population for no clear reason.
Democratic presidents can make it a point to not appoint clearly religious people to the Supreme Court, but a religious ban would be very obviously political and very possibly unconstitutional (if not unconstitutional, still very unfair).
(Before it seems like I'm associated with the religious right, let me just say I have no respect left for them whatsoever after they've continually embraced Trump - even after the Access Hollywood tapes, even after his Charlottesville comments, even after January 6 - because muh pro-life judges. At this point what's known as the religious right is basically a knot of highly religious and blindly pro-life people with, thankfully, a waning influence in American politics, though unfortunately they did get 3 more pro-life judges thanks to Trump.)
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