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Amy Barrett, Catholic nominee for Federal Court Judge
and Al Franken, Democrat Senator
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Amy Coney Barrett, a widely
published professor of law at the University of Notre Dame has been nominated
by President Donald Trump for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and was
featured in an article published by the National Catholic Register on September
22. A Senate hearing was held and
several liberal Senators including Al Franken and Diane Feinstein gave her a
brutal grilling. The You Tube video of
the Franken exchange is particularly disgusting.
The Catholic Register article
referred to an article Barrett wrote years ago as the subject of Feinstein’s
questions, stating,
“…it was Feinstein who
mischaracterized the article’s conclusion, thus raising questions about
Barrett’s fitness for the appellate bench. Truth be told, the 1998 law review article in
question, co-authored by Catholic constitutional scholar John Garvey, now the
president of The Catholic University of America, reached a very different
conclusion about the religious and professional responsibilities of Catholic
jurists on the federal bench. In their
paper, Barrett and Garvey posed this question: Must judges who accept Church teaching on capital punishment recuse
themselves in federal death-penalty cases? After exploring this question, the
authors concluded that such cases were far from common, and when they did
arise, Catholic judges should recuse themselves if necessary.” (My
emphasis added.)
