Many Black politicans are Greek and I know a lot of White male ones are Pikes.

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Whizzer White played foootball and was an asshole, okay-not a good example. (kidding)

Anyway, the point is to ensure that we have Justices who are capable of being able to judge a case fresh upon its merits. Thus, current membership plays a larger role than former membership. The depth of that membership- are we talking a sorority 40 years ago or a club they resigned yesterday. And finally, what kind of membership are we talking about? A sorority that may have been more about peer acceptance and blood drives (and perhaps some general bitchery) or youth klansmember. There is a difference, as anyone with common sense can tell, between a club that betrays a real belief and one joined for the extra-curriculars and/or booze.

While it seems stupid to decry a club about women and for women, the polar oppsite cannot be abided. Just like someone said earlier, we can't have clubs for the promotion and advancement of white men. That is why she had to resign.

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An interesting thing is the mere existence of this and its male equivalent. I wonder the whole collective of powerful people actually meeting and somehow coordinating their group think is a good or bad thing. I need a tell all!

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"Alan Shore: Let's consider your respective Senate confirmations. You all testified under oath that you never actually considered how you would rule on abortion. You must be kidding me! Never gave it a thought? No perjury there? Justice Scalia? You went duck hunting with Vice President Cheney while he was a named defendant in a case before this court. Congratulations on not getting shot, by the way, but you didn't exactly avoid the appearance of impropriety there? Justice Alito? You were caught hearing a case involving a company you'd invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in. Ha! No conflict of interest there? You also don't recuse yourself in terrorism cases even though your best friend is Michael Chernov, head of Homeland Security? Seems to me the Supreme Court of the United States should be made of sterner stuff. Am I right? Justice Thomas? At least put down the magazine!"

I know it's just TV... but I wish that we were more worried about the real biases and less worried about the perception of artificial ones. Also, this was a good episode :)

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Scalito's problem is mainly his past judicial record. Which has a lot of less than sterling behavior and captured.

Thomas. Poor Thomas. Appearing on the cover of People Magazine will forever haunt him. My law professor used to call him Scalia's butt-boy.

As for being friends with Washington politico's.... well, that is a harder decision. The goold old days where a Justice willingly became a hermit is in the past and I have yet to blame them for friendships they hold outside of the court. Scalia's shame was that he accepted a free duck-hunting trip paid for by special interests at a time when Dick Cheney's administration was before the Court.

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Sometimes I wish Dems would get as nasty as Republicans and call out those muthafuckers on their hypocrisy.

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Anyway, holding a church as an example of why membership should bar you from government employment would be a violation of the Establishment Clause.

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@lolacat: The beliefs I was referring to were not whether or not you "believe in communion", but what communion represents, i.e. as a Protestant I would be denied communion because I don't believe in transubstantiation.

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