"If Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, she will be the sixth Roman Catholic of the nine justices... Two other justices -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer -- are Jewish. When Justice David Souter, an Episcopalian, soon retires, Justice John Paul Stevens will be the lone Protestant." *

-- AP News

Many Catholic lawyers belong to an organization called the "Thomas More Society", named for their patron saint. Each year, the Society sponsors the "Red Mass" (see photos) at the opening of the Supreme Court sessions in both the U.S. and Canada. Is this ominous ritual compatible with the separation of Church and State?

"St. Thomas More, counsellor and advocate, learned in the law, chancellor of charity and jurist of justice, merry martyr, scholar and canonized saint, may the Lord of all law and of all lawyers make me at your request a little more like you today than I was yesterday."

-- Lawyer's prayer to St. Thomas More

One of "saint" Thomas More's famous persecutions was that of William Tyndale, the Protestant hero (and ex-Catholic) who produced and distributed the first English translations of the Bible in defiance of the papacy. Thomas More, to whom these Catholic lawyers pray for guidance, and the Bishop of London arranged to have Tyndale burned alive as a "heretic" for his defence of religious freedom and his criticism of the corrupt Roman Church.

"Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered." -- Luke 11:52

Ms. Sotomayor herself was a mediocre student who was elevated into her position despite her lack of academic qualifications because of unjust favoritism based on her race and gender.

"[Her] lower test scores were overlooked by admissions committees at Princeton University and Yale Law School because, she said, she is Hispanic and had grown up in poor circumstances. 'If we had gone through the traditional numbers route of those institutions,' says Sotomayor, 'it would have been highly questionable if I would have been accepted. ... My test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates.' Thus, Sotomayor got into Princeton, got her No. 1 ranking, was whisked into Yale Law School and made editor of the Yale Law Review--all because she was a Hispanic woman."

-- Patrick Buchanan

Ms. Sotomayor was also until recently a card-carrying member of the "National Council of La Raza" (NCLR), a racist latino organization ('la Raza' literally means 'the Race') whose radical members and affiliates have treasonably called for the "re-conquest" of the western U.S. and the forcible expulsion of white Americans.

The more moderate elements of "La Raza" favor stripping Americans of their assets via taxation to fund socialist welfare programs for themselves and their "anchor babies", while shipping their own funds offshore to benefit foreign familias. Such "remittances" are Mexico's second largest source of foreign income. California, the epicenter of the invasion, is now on the brink of collapse as a result.

The "sub-prime" housing loan debacle was also centered in California, and most of those loans went to undocumented, unqualified latino borrowers. NCLR has lobbied for further subsidies so that members of "La Raza" can remain in their overpriced homes at American taxpayer expense.

"Both Mozilo and Sambol [of Countrywide] were aware as early as June 2006 that a significant percentage of borrowers who were taking out 'stated income' loans were engaged in mortgage fraud...and that there was evidence that borrowers were lying about their income in the application process."

-- Seeking Alpha

* UPDATE: When David Souter stepped down, he was replaced by Elena Kagan, a Jew who is also reported to be a lesbian.