By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged
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(ANALYSIS) This time, the Democrats avoided the dogma.
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s faith was a big focus going into this week’s Senate Judicial Committee hearings.
In advance of the confirmation proceedings, The Associated Press’ Mary Clare Jalonick and Elana Schor noted:
WASHINGTON (AP) — “The dogma lives loudly within you.”
It’s that utterance from California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, that’s on the minds of Democrats and Republicans preparing for this coming week’s hearings with Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
Feinstein’s 2017 remarks as she questioned Barrett — then a nominee for an appeals court — about the influence of Barrett’s Catholic faith on her judicial views sparked bipartisan backlash, contributing to the former law professor’s quick rise as a conservative judicial star.
Similarly, the Wall Street Journal’s Francis X. Rocca and Lindsay Wise pointed out:
This column appears in the online magazine Religion Unplugged.
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