`` Evangelicals have put more effort into getting elected than in getting onto the bench , '' said Michael Lindsay , a Rice University professor who has studied evangelical elites . Current Supreme Court has six Catholics , two Jews and one Protestant . Comment: Only one of the Supreme Court candidates on Obama 's short list is a Protestant . More evangelicals have begun pursuing legal degrees in the last few decades .
Current Supreme Court has six Catholics , two Jews and one Protestant . Comment: Only one of the Supreme Court candidates on Obama 's short list is a Protestant . More evangelicals have begun pursuing legal degrees in the last few decades .