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WASHINGTON—The Senate on Tuesday confirmed University of Notre Dame law
professor Amy Barrett for a federal appeals court judgeship, closing for now
a debate about whether it is appropriate for lawmakers to ask a nominee
questions about their religious faith.
Ms. Barrett was confirmed to the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Chicago on a 55-43 vote.
President Donald Trump nominated the professor, a former law clerk to the
late Justice Antonin Scalia, in May.
Ms. Barrett’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in
September sparked criticism from some Republicans after a few Democratic
senators, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), asked about Ms.
Barrett’s Catholicism and whether she would be able to separate her
religious beliefs from her duty of impartiality as a judge. Ms. Barrett said
she could.
Some GOP lawmakers said the Democrats’ questions suggested they were
imposing a religious test for nominees. Democrats denied the charge and Ms.
Feinstein said the controversy was overblown.
The California senator among other things said she was concerned Ms. Barrett
would be hostile to abortion rights.
Ms. Feinstein and other Democrats said their questions were relevant because
most of Ms. Barrett’s record came from her legal writings, which included
a paper she co-wrote about what a faithful judge should do if the judge
believed she was morally precluded from imposing the death penalty. The
paper said it would be appropriate for a judge presiding over a death case
to recuse.
In the end, three Democrats joined with the Senate’s 52 Republicans in
voting for Ms. Barrett’s confirmation. |
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