{"id":1395015,"date":"2022-03-22T20:14:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T00:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395015"},"modified":"2022-03-22T20:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T00:14:43","slug":"graham-slams-democrats-for-double-standard-on-amy-coney-barretts-religious-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-slams-democrats-for-double-standard-on-amy-coney-barretts-religious-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Slams Democrats for Double Standard on Amy Coney Barrett&#039;s Religious Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-slams-democrats-for-double-standard-on-amy-coney-barretts-religious-test%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395015&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday slammed Senate Democrats for applying a religious test for Justice\u00a0Amy Coney Barrett during her Senate confirmation hearings while giving President Biden\u2019s\u00a0nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson a pass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qrShPb kno-ecr-pt PZPZlf q8U8x\">Graham pointed out that Justice Barrett, a Catholic, was questioned about her faith regarding abortion while Democrat nominee Jackson, a nondenominational Protestant, has not undergone the same improper test.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPersonally, my faith is very important, but as you know, there is no religious test under Article Six, and it is very important to set aside one\u2019s personal views in the role of a judge,\u201d\u00a0Jackson said,\u00a0 explaining her position, one which the Senate Democrats ignored during their examination of\u00a0Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would you feel if a Senator up here said, \u2018Your faith and dogma lives loudly within you and that is a concern?&#8217;\u201d\u00a0Graham asked Jackson, referring to how the Democrats improperly examined Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would you feel if some of them on our side said, \u2018You are into church \u2014 too much church for me and my faith is different,\u2019 and they would suggest it would affect your decisions? Would you find that offensive?\u201d Graham asked Jackson rhetorically.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Graham emerged from hearing and said it\u2019s \u201cfair to say\u201d he sees red flags with Jackson nomination. He criticized her explanation of defending Guantanamo detainees as an attorney. \u201cIt just doesn\u2019t make sense to me,\u201d he told me. He was one of 3 Rs who voted for her for DC Circuit<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\/status\/1506289862957223940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Graham continued to explain that Barrett was given improper treatment by the media, which accused her of being a religious \u201cnut\u201d and\u00a0\u201cspeaking in tongues\u201d because she practiced her Catholic religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am convinced whatever faith you have and how often you go to church will not affect your ability to be fair, and I just hope going into the future that we all can accept that, and the judge [Barrett], I felt, was treated very, very poorly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just 47 percent of voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/22\/poll-47-percent-say-bidens-supreme-court-nominee-should-confirmed\/\">believe<\/a> Jackson should be confirmed, a Tuesday Politico\/Morning Consult poll revealed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday slammed Senate Democrats for applying a religious test for Justice\u00a0Amy Coney Barrett during her Senate confirmation hearings while giving President Biden\u2019s\u00a0nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}