Supreme Court challenge to Church & State separation?

"One of the great things about the United States is the legal system of checks and balances designed to protect the innocent and render fair judgment. If the system has failed at one level, it may work at another, and so on, "all the way to the Supreme Court," as it is often said.

The United States Supreme Court is, well, supreme in this land, and it too functions under a system of checks and balances so that no one individual should be able to gain undue and unfair influence.

While I do not generally engage in criticism of individuals, I have to say that one of my least favorite Supreme Court Justices during the many years I have been a sentient adult is Antonin Scalia. Justice Scalia may be a very nice man in person, and he may be very bright, but he brings with him some unseemly baggage not appropriate for the bench: To wit, Scalia is a devout Catholic, and in many instances he seems to be attempting to inject his personal faith into American jurisprudence above and beyond what is normal and acceptable. Although I have not studied his record in depth, Scalia has at times struck me as waving around his Catholicism as true, while using his position to be critical of other faiths.

Oddly enough, among the nine current Supreme Court Justices, six are Catholic, one is Protestant and two are Jewish. To my knowledge, no self-declared atheist or freethinker has ever sat on the Supreme Court. Apparently only one Justice, David Davis (d. 1877), has been unaffiliated with a church, temple or other religious organization.................."

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