The religious right see one of their own in Trump justice pick Amy Coney Barrett
Coney Barrett is a Catholic who may believe in prophecy; a mother of seven; and a legal scholar who thinks abortion is ‘always immoral’
24 September 2020 - 10:07
Three years ago, when Amy Coney Barrett was a nominee to the federal appeals court in Chicago, she endured a blistering Senate confirmation hearing in which Democrats grilled her on whether her deep Catholic faith would distort her view of the law.
She maintained a calm demeanour under the intense questioning, but behind the scenes, she was “a little shook,” recalled Laurence Silberman, a Washington federal appeals court judge for whom Barrett once clerked and who sat with her family at the 2017 hearing...
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