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Feinstein Defends ‘Dogma' Questioning of Catholic Judicial Nominee
2017-09-18
[Free Beacon] Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) defended her questioning of a Catholic judicial nominee where she said the "dogma" lives within her, saying Sunday the judge's past writings were "questionable."

During a confirmation hearing on Sept. 6 for federal judge nominee and Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett, Feinstein said Barrett's past writings showed the "dogma lives loudly within you."

That comment and Sen. Dick Durbin's (D., Ill.) question of whether Barrett was an "orthodox Catholic" stoked criticism from the right and the left for giving a religious test to President Donald Trump's nominee.

Bringing up the controversy Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," host Dana Bash asked Feinstein for an explanation for her remarks.

Feinstein said she was a product of Catholic education and called it a "great religion," touting she's tried to be helpful to the church anywhere she could.

However, she said, the nominee in this case had no trial or court experience and thus "no record."
Posted by:Besoeker

#6   helpful to the church

Angling for first Californian pope?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-09-18 20:15  

#5  As a (False) Prophet of Secular Humanism?

When it's politically palatable and convenient.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-09-18 19:01  

#4  Feinstein said she was a product of Catholic education and called it a "great religion," touting she's tried to be helpful to the church anywhere she could.
As a (False) Prophet of Secular Humanism?
Posted by: magpie   2017-09-18 11:25  

#3  ..why just confine her lack of Constitutional knowledge to that. The Left only looks at it as an impediment to dictatorial power (which of course, is what it was designed to prevent). While you're at it, SCOTUS still has left stand Affirmative Action in direct contradiction to the 'equal protection' clause of the 14 Amendment.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-09-18 10:26  

#2  Evidently the part in Article 6 of the Constitution, the part about "but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States" slipped her memory.
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-09-18 08:23  

#1  I can't help but wonder if the Kennedy's "dogma" was ever mentioned ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-09-18 03:46  

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