Senator Josh Hawley didn’t pull any punches in today’s Senate confirmation hearing of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, calling out both Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein for their anti-Catholic bigotry against Republican judicial nominees:
Normally you rarely hear a Senator calling out other members by name or position. They usually just say ‘members of this committee’ or ‘members on the other side’. But Hawley got very specific, calling out Harris for questioning previous nominees about their membership in “Catholic fraternal organizations like the Knights of Columbus”:
“And for those watching at home you heard me correctly. Senator Harris and others on this committee have repeatedly questioned judicial nominees’ fitness for office because of their membership in the Knights of Columbus.”
Hawley didn’t stop there, hammering Feinstein for her past bigotry as well:
The ranking member, when you were last before this committee judge for your initial confirmation hearings, the ranking member referred to your Catholic convictions as ‘dogma’ – that’s a quote – that lives loudly within you, picking up the very terminology of anti-Catholic bigotry current in this country a century ago.
Hawley went to on to say “When you tell somebody that they’re too Catholic to be on the bench, when you tell them they’re going to be a Catholic judge, not an American judge, that’s bigotry.”
Watch the video for much more…
UPDATE: Hawley added this on Twitter:
.@KamalaHarris should renounce her history of attacks on Catholic nominees and people of faith – and call on all other Democrats to do the same. She can do it now in her opening statement. If she doesn’t, we will know where she stands https://t.co/jv9Bv53mmC
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) October 12, 2020