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From: Brumar899/9/2017 2:27:14 PM
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Should a Judge's Nomination Be Derailed by Her Faith? During a recent hearing, Democratic senators pushed an appellate-court nominee to explain how her religious beliefs would affect her legal decisions.

EMMA GREEN


Dianne Feinstein sat alongside other senators at a hearing on Wednesday and questioned two federal appellate-court nominees. She was particularly anxious about Amy Coney Barrett, a law professor at Notre Dame: Feinstein was not convinced that Barrett would uphold Roe v. Wade given her traditional Catholic beliefs.

“The dogma lives loudly within you,” Feinstein said. “And that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for for years in this country.”

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theatlantic.com

Article VI of the United States Constitution provides explicitly that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

As a Jew, I think Jewish senators should know better than to subject nominees to ignorant religious inquisitions:

(((Yair Rosenberg)))?Verified account @Yair_Rosenberg
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