As a Senate candidate, Whitaker said he could not support 'secular' judicial nominees and...

[DonViejo]

As a Senate candidate, Whitaker said he could not support ‘secular’ judicial nominees and that courts should be ‘inferior branch’

By Michael Kranish and
Robert Barnes November 9 at 5:25 PM

Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker has said that judges should have a “biblical view,” that he could not support nominees who are “secular” and declared that federal courts should be the “inferior branch” of government.

Whitaker’s comments, made during an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate in 2014, have drawn new scrutiny since President Trump named him Wednesday to replace ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

In an April 25, 2014, debate, moderator Erick Erickson asked the candidates about their faith. Whitaker said that, if elected, he would want judges who “have a biblical view of justice, which I think is very important …”

Erickson interjected: “Levitical or New Testament?”

“I’m a New Testament,” Whitaker answered, according to an account at the time in the Des Moines Register. “And what I know is as long as they have that world view, that they’ll be a good judge. And if they have a secular world view, where this is all we have here on Earth, then I’m going to be very concerned about that judge.”

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[northoftheborder]

1. This is THE most frightening information about Whitaker, IMHO.

[gratuitous]

2. A New Testament view of justice, Matthew?

So, if I take somebody's jacket, I'm legally entitled to take his shirt, too? That's New Testament. Biblical. Jesus his own self said it in red letters and everything.

Or are you saying something else that only the people "in the know" would understand?

[dalton99a]

3. This piece of shit is now attorney general of the United States