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Ever wonder why there are so many Irish American hate threads? Especially right now given the recent news on Roe. V Wade? Read on.
Five of the six Catholics on the court (Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh and Barrett) were nominated by Republican presidents, while Sotomayor is the only Catholic justice nominated by a Democrat (Barack Obama). Given their Catholic background, it's impossible to ignore the Irish American influence on the justices. Not just by blood (like Kavanaugh or Barrett) but the Irish, in fact, had even been an important influence on the Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas since he was a kid.
Thomas has spoken, in particular, of Sister Mary Virgilius Reidy. In one interview, before she died at the age of 100 in 2013, Thomas said: "(Sister Mary) is an Irish immigrant. She went in the convent in 1931. She was originally at Augustan at Immaculate Conception and then she came to Savannah (Georgia) She was unyielding in her attitude that you would do well. It was consistent with my grandfather’s attitude because I mean, as a kid, I’m 12, 13 years old. I want to do what 12- and 13-year-olds do. I want to have fun and my grandfather’s view, and hers, was that we did not have the luxury in the '50s to have fun, that we had an obligation to perform and to do well."
