Morning Jolt: Tune in to ABC’s Monday Night Judicial Nominations!

They're all good judges, but for what it's worth, I hope President Trump nominates Amy Comey Barrett to be the next justice on the Supreme Court.

Ramesh offers several strong arguments for Barrett, and I'll throw in one more. The way Senate Democrats treated Barrett last autumn — in particular, Senator Dianne Feinstein's argument that Barrett was simply too religious and too devoutly Catholic to serve on the bench, declaring, "the dogma lives loudly within you," revealed an argument this country needs to have: whether the country accepts deeply religious people in positions of legal authority.

(It's kind of amazing that a country that has freedom of religion, that was founded in part by Pilgrims, was a beacon for those seeking religious freedom for generations, and that has had George Washington, John Adams, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, ...

July 09 2018

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Tune in to ABC's Monday Night Judicial Nominations!

Jim Geraghty

They're all good judges, but for what it's worth, I hope President Trump nominates Amy Comey Barrett to be the next justice on the Supreme Court.

Ramesh offers several strong arguments for Barrett, and I'll throw in one more. The way Senate Democrats treated Barrett last autumn — in particular, Senator Dianne Feinstein's argument that Barrett was simply too religious and too devoutly Catholic to serve on the bench, declaring, "the dogma lives loudly within you," revealed an argument this country needs to have: whether the country accepts deeply religious people in positions of legal authority.

(It's kind of amazing that a country that has freedom of religion, that was founded in part by Pilgrims, was a beacon for those seeking religious freedom for generations, and that has had George Washington, John Adams, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, ... Read More

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