Dianne Feinstein declared that “the dogma lives loudly within you” during Barrett’s hearing, a phrase some conservatives took to be an attack on Barrett’s Catholicism.īarrett is also part of a small Catholic group known as People of Praise, and that’s where her religious affiliations get especially touchy. In a moment that has become infamous on the right, Sen. She has written before about her belief that Catholicism should affect a judge’s jurisprudence, and Democrats discussed her views widely when she was nominated to the federal bench in 2017. And it only further served to reignite the extremely polarized conversation around Barrett’s religion that has been building since 2017.īarrett is a devout Catholic. Barrett’s controversial confirmation was the final chapter of the spectacle surrounding her rapid nomination and confirmation, especially so close to a presidential election. On Monday, Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump’s nominee to take Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court, was officially confirmed and sworn in.
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