That the 6 Justices in the current majority on the Court, the so-called "Gang of Six," are all Catholics?
Puts their rulings favoring religion and religious practices in a different light, doesn't it?
Not to mention their rulings on abortion.
That none of the Gang of Six was ever a trial judge?
Their experience was all in appellate courts where they saw other lawyers, who made arguments for them to always decide who was right. So, the Gang of Six are used to making the decision in every case and whatever decision they make, must be the right one, of course.
Trial judges certainly see other lawyers also, but in trials they generally see witnesses who testify for juries to decide who was right. Sometimes juries get it wrong, but not often; even when juries do get it wrong, the trial judge is there to administer justice, not impose her or his own decision in place of what the jury decided.
That's a big difference in their backgrounds.
In fact, apparently only one Justice was a trial judge before being nominated to the Supreme Court: Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would make the second Justice on the Court with experience as a trial judge.
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