It’s an important point that they are both from NYC and from the approximate same era.
The entire court is now like that.
Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor, Alito and Scalia are all from the same tri-state area in and around NYC. Breyer, Thomas, Roberts and Kennedy are from other parts of the country but none of them from the interior except that Roberts moved to Indiana during high school.
This means the Court has the outlook of the bi-coastal urban liberals ONLY.
Don’t even want to talk about the fact that none of them are Protestant. That would have appalled the Founders. But, let’s just work on what we can for the moment.
The Justices should each come from a Federal District Court region. That way they would at least be representative of legal norms in their respective areas.
And we wouldn’t be wondering why 2 members of the court can engage in biased behavior so outrageous that were they on a lower court they would not have any say in being recused: it would be near automatic.
Very Good.
Who cares if they are Protestant and who knows or cares what the founders would have thought about it?