Opinion of Amy Coney Barrett

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Absolutely awful, but I do have some personal sympathy for her because of Feinstein's disgusting religion-baiting attacks on her during her Seventh Circuit confirmation.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Absolutely awful, but I do have some personal sympathy for her because of Feinstein's disgusting religion-baiting attacks on her during her Seventh Circuit confirmation.

This.
Btw not surprisingly my dad is cheering.

Why does your dad care about the US's federal judiciary exactly?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Absolutely awful, but I do have some personal sympathy for her because of Feinstein's disgusting religion-baiting attacks on her during her Seventh Circuit confirmation.

This.
Btw not surprisingly my dad is cheering.

Why does your dad care about the US's federal judiciary exactly?

Because he follows American politics regularly and he is still smart enough to understand that the federal judiciary matters a lot in the US.

Fair enough. I don't know much about how the Court of Cassation works, but if I did, I'd probably care about it too (and about the Japanese Supreme Court if it ever actually ruled on the constitutionality of anything).

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Absolutely awful, but I do have some personal sympathy for her because of Feinstein's disgusting religion-baiting attacks on her during her Seventh Circuit confirmation.

I think Feinstein’s line of questioning was perfectly legitimate. I will stand corrected if the truth is otherwise, but as far as I can remember she did not lean into the “taking orders from Rome” trope, and her questioning could have applied equally to a Protestant or Muslim as a Catholic. ACB has expressed a worrying opposition to church-state separation, and keeping her religious views out of her rulings, and she should expect to be questioned on it.

I might have felt differently about Feinstein's questions if the substantive issue behind them had been something else. What she was asking Barrett about was an article arguing that Catholic judges should recuse themselves in capital cases due to the Church's opposition to capital punishment, meaning that Feinstein was attacking a conservative jurist for being critical of the death penalty but framing the question in a way that made her look like the woke one. Classic DiFi bullsh**t.