re: #76 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Federal Law prohibits discrimination based on religion.

Not in presidential appointments. Not one of the justices on the S.C. is Protestant. If there were quotas governing the selection of nominees to the SC, to see that they fit the national distribution of membership in various faiths, that would not be allowed.

The Constitution forbids a LAW that would disqualify, or uniquely select, a job candidates’ religion at any level. But there is no federal law that forbids a president from proclaiming that his next SC justice nominee will be, say, Mormon. Or Muslim. Or neither. That would be gauche, but legal.