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Forewarned is forearmed: Part II

Sep 24, 2020

By Dave Andrusko

As part of a larger discussion, on Wednesday I quoted from a story in POLITICO in which unnamed “senators and aides” were telling the reporter that they didn’t think pro-abortion Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Ranking Member of the Minority on the Senate Judiciary Committee, would be up to the task of eviscerating whatever nominee to the Supreme Court pro-life President Donald Trump announces Saturday. (Okay, that’s my wordage. Supposedly they are concerned about “whether the California Democrat is capable of leading the aggressive effort Democrats need against whoever President Donald Trump picks to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”)

I wrote that is nonsense. What I didn’t quote is this from John Bresnahan’s and Marianne Levine’s account:

Feinstein has already stumbled once in tangling with Amy Coney Barrett, who is widely seen as the frontrunner to be Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. At a 2017 hearing for an appeals court seat, Feinstein told Barrett that “the dogma lives loudly within you” — a remark that was instantly seized upon as anti-Catholic bias by Republicans.

“Seized upon” is, in ReporterSpeak, code for not legitimate. Republicans in general, President Trump in particular, can never be legitimately upset by (in this case) blatantly anti-Catholic bias.

I mention this because, like many of you, I continue to read up on Judge Barrett. She is an incredible woman with a list of legal credentials (she clerked for Justice Scalia) and academic bona fides (she has been voted Professor of the Year three times at the University of Notre Dame) as long as your arm. Judge Barrett is also the mother of seven (two adopted from Haiti), and (alert!) a Catholic who practices her faith in a serious manner.

A fair reading of the paragraphs surrounding the quote POLITICO reposts is not that Feinstein did the unthinkable—trashing Christians for their faith is an article of secular faith for pro-abortion Democrats—but rather that she did it so blatantly. A scalpel, not a meat cleaver, is the preferred instrument.

But not everyone agrees. Already there is blowback from pro-abortionists who offer convoluted (and dishonest) arguments why it’s perfectly okay to go after Judge Barrett’s Catholicism. POLITICO ran a piece today that attempts to justify the headline: “Why Amy Coney Barrett’s Religious Beliefs Aren’t Off Limits” by caricaturing and misrepresenting the charismatic group of which Judge Barrett and her husband are members.

And that’s just a start.

Can you imagine what pro-abortionists like Feinstein and Sen. Dick Durbin will do with this statement, which a story in the South Bend Tribune said she made at an event hosted by the Notre Dame Club of Washington, D.C., in 2019.

“What greater thing can you do than raise children?” she told the audience in Washington.

“That’s where you have your greatest impact on the world.”

Obviously, a theocrat, who cannot be trusted to sit on the Supreme Court.

If and when Judge Barrett appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee, will you even recognize the woman described this way in a story in yesterday’s South Bend Tribune?

[Professor Stephen] Yelderman’s bottom-line assessment is clear: “She’s mind-blowingly intelligent, and she’s also one of the most humble people you’re going to meet. Judge Barrett is the complete package.”

You won’t in the vituperative attacks we know are coming from the likes of Sens. Mazie Hirono and Richard Blumenthal and Patrick Leahy, to name just three.

Fortunately, for the good of the American people, Judge Barrett is a woman of outstanding character and deep faith.

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