[gobucks]

Can anyone answer for me this question: who was the last SCOTUS Justice that was a white, protestant, Southerner?

[Dog Gone]

Not sure where you're going with this. Are you suggesting that conservatives don't like southern white protestants?

[Earthdweller]

Hopefully this is a trivia question but it may not play well in this overcharged environment.

You better duck for the incoming.

GO COLTS!!!

[JCEccles]

Off the top of my head I can think of Virginian Lewis Powell and Alabaman Hugo Black, both socially liberal activists. I'm not sure if either was or both were Protestant, but I believe both were.

[Jim_Curtis]

I'm all for Southern, White, Protestant SCOTUS justices but why settle for a liberal Southern white protestant?

Hugo Black was a good one, don't know if he was the last one though.

[jstolzen]

That has absolutely NOTHING to do with the objections to Miers.

The fact that she is WHOLLY UNQUALIFIED, knows NOTHING about Constitutional Law, has ZERO track record to know her true "judicial philosophy" (assuming she even has one, and isn't the political opportunist that she appears to be) and is a CRONY of W has much, MUCH more to do with the opposition.

[Ol' Sparky]

After thinking it over for a bit, the Miers outrage among 'conservatives' seems to have one major feature: she is a Southern, White, Protestant.

Sort of like Jimmy Carter? And, that's far from the only similarities between Miers and Carter.

[RunningJoke]

Strawman fallacy

[msnimje]

The following are NOT qualifications for sitting on the Supreme Court

1) Southern
2) White
3) Protestant
.