Does the Supreme Court Need an Evangelical?

When the last Protestant on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens, announced his retirement in 2009, the politics of the president’s choice for the vacancy was more than a left/right/liberal/conservative showdown.

NPR’s Nina Tottenberg tracked the history of another battlefront – religion. She called it a “radioactive subject.” And she noted that two Jews and a Catholic were among the most oft-mentioned names for the post.