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Dianne Feinstein renews her decades-long crusade against Catholic judges

By Quin Hillyer
Published September 7, 2017 12:19am ET
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Dianne Feinstein renews her decades-long crusade against Catholic judges
The bigger question isn't whether this distinguished professor doesn't understand what her judicial oath requires, but rather whether Feinstein understands, as Nebraska's Sen. Ben Sasse noted, that it is unlawful to impose a religious test on public officials. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | J. Scott Applewhite

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein again is coming awfully close to expressing anti-Catholic bigotry and close to imposing an unconstitutional “religious test” upon federal judges. Outrageously, several fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are following her lead.

In a committee hearing Wednesday on the nomination of Notre Dame Law School Professor Amy Coney Barrett for a spot on the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Feinstein and her Democratic colleagues pelted Barrett with questions about her Catholic faith and its relation to duties as a federal judge.

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