WOULD A JUSTICE AMY BARRETT RECUSE HERSELF IN ABORTION CASES?

[Draggingtree]

Patterico

7/2/2018

Would a Justice Amy Barrett Recuse Herself in Abortion Cases?

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:59 am

Judge Amy Barrett seems to be the new hotness among conservatives. She is being seriously discussed as a credible candidate to replace Anthony Kennedy despite a mighty thin track record as a judge. Why? Let’s look at a couple of representative pieces. First, Michael Brendan Dougherty at National Review has a piece titled Wanted: Justice Amy Coney Barrett:

The facts of Barrett’s life — that she is a mother of seven children, and that when she speaks about her Catholic faith, she speaks about God as if she really believes in His existence — will provoke nasty and bigoted statements from Democratic senators and liberal media personalities. Again.

You may recall that this has already happened. In 2017, during confirmation hearings for a seat on the Seventh Circuit, Senator Dianne Feinstein surveyed Barrett’s public statements on her personal faith and told her that she worried that “the dogma lives loudly within you.” The bizarre idiom she created was a sign that Feinstein didn’t have an easy way to say what she wanted to say: A Catholic is fine. A believing Catholic is not.

And Michael Walther at The Week has a piece titled Amy Barrett for the Supreme Court:     

[Valin]

1 hour ago, Draggingtree said:

Patterico

 

You may recall that this has already happened. In 2017, during confirmation hearings for a seat on the Seventh Circuit, Senator Dianne Feinstein surveyed Barrett’s public statements on her personal faith and told her that she worried that “the dogma lives loudly within you.

 

A Justice that actually believes in something...No No No We can't have that!

 

One of the things that has happened since Bork is the nominee dose everything they can to not express an opinion on anything.