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LongtimeAZDem

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6. Gabbard also targeted Feinstein for questioning Amy Coney Barrett, who belives that biblical law

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 05:46 PM

Jan 2019

is supreme; as such, the questions were entirely germane:

"Among other things, she (Barrett) strongly criticized Justice William Brennan’s statement about faith, in which he said that he took an oath to uphold the law, and that “there isn’t any obligation of our faith superior” to that oath. In response, Barrett wrote: “We do not defend this position as the proper response for a Catholic judge to take with respect to abortion or the death penalty.”

Leading Candidate For Supreme Court Claims Bible Precedes Constitution

And Barrett is a likely Trump choice for SCOTUS if we lose Ginsberg.