Since President Wilson named Louis Brandeis to the high court, tacitly there has been some understanding that we should have some Jewish representation on the court, just as nowadays there is some representation of gender and African American background, ... But I cannot think of any president who has ever made a nomination because of the religious beliefs that a person held.
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