Posted on 12/25/2018 7:37:36 AM PST by Kaslin
In the true spirit of the holiday season, Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) showed their true colors of bigotry and bias against Catholicism in a recent judicial confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill.
Before the committee was Omaha lawyer Brian C. Buescher, nominated by President Trump to represent the District of Nebraska on the United States District Court. Buescher is also a long-time member of the Knights of Columbus, an iconic service group of nearly two million Catholics, worldwide, that recruits members for volunteer work and fundraising for charitable causes. The Knights of Columbus have a distinguished reputation for selfless public service, charitable work and the promotion of Catholic values both within and outside of the church. Buescher’s membership did not sit well with Harris and Hirono, although the pair of potential 2020 contenders do not seem to actually understand the function of the Knights of Columbus society.
Originally founded in 1882, the Knights of Columbus started as a society benefitting poverty-stricken Catholic immigrants; now, the organization donates nearly 200 million dollars per year from approximately 15,000 chapters across twelve countries.
Senators Harris and Hirono insisted that Buescher’s membership gave him an inherent judicial bias, effectively disqualifying him from the opportunity to sit on the federal bench. Of course, Sen. Harris immediately defaulted to the gender card.
“Sen. Harris described the Knights as “an all-male society and asked if Buescher was aware that the Knights of Columbus “opposed a woman’s right to choose” and were against “marriage equality” when he joined,” the Catholic News Agency reported.
As anyone with a basic knowledge of the Catholic faith could easily confirm, the Knights of Columbus are, indeed, opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage, as the Catholic Church constitutes. However, as Americans saw in the confirmation hearings for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and many other federal court nominees, Senate Democrats insist that any remote tie to a religious or Conservative organization is nothing short of a disqualifier. This vendetta against President Trump’s judicial nominees is attributed to the Senators’ anti-Conservative bias, but also a fundamental misunderstanding of the function of the courts and what a qualified judge truly looks like. A qualified nominee’s judicial intellect is derived from his or her years of studying the law, which builds their individual perspective on and interpretation of the law. Although ideology has potential to cloud judgement, impartiality, emotion and passion are not mutually exclusive; a judge’s ability to be impartial is completely dependent on their inclination to uphold the rule of law, however they see fit.
In response to a written question, per CNA, Buescher defended his judicial impartiality:
“...there is a difference between taking political positions as a candidate for elective office and serving as a federal judge. I believe a judge’s role and obligation is to apply the law without regard to any personal beliefs regarding the law.”
Judicial ability is not depleted by religion or ideology, or ties to related groups. The increasing bias from Senate Democrats against judicial nominees, fueled by the president who made the nominations, is a dangerous precedent to set for future confirmations. Judges should not be expected to be completely devoid of emotion, passion for certain causes or religious beliefs; these all uniquely shape each judge’s individual judicial philosophy.
Democratic Senators on the Judiciary Committee must put aside their obstructionist agenda, and look exclusively at the the objective judicial ability of nominees.
Religious bigots are the worst kind of bigot because it goes deeper than just “skin deep”.
catholics will do absolutely nothing about her. Bookmark this post and hide and watch and wait and see. Not a catholic will lift a hand against her for what she has said. It is all talk....
It’s like saying basketball players can’t be football referees.
According to Kamala Harris no humans can serve on the court. Every human has a soul, which is owned either by God or Satan. Every human has a religion.
Well, if Harris runs for national office I will vote against her. Californians elected this lousy bigot, not me.
Would she be attacking a muslim for their faith?
And many of them will vote for her
FWIW, I do not oppose them. Some catholics oppose them, others do not. It is not a monolithic political position. Improper generalizations should be avoided.
Californians elected this lousy bigot,shows how that liberalism thing works.
I will not.
These people hate everyone.
20 men and women in an overcrowded primary field.
Each of those candidates confronted with pre-timed, crowd-focused, heinous allegations.
Some will be baseless, others will be true. Most will have the tinge of truth but prove unproveable, and yet flood the zone sufficiently to allow the MSM to control the #Narrative.
You don't have to imagine it because it is exactly what they are going to do to each other.
What these same people did to Kavanaugh was proof-of-concept. Now it is the primary selling point with their political consulting firm.
Everyone they disagree with. I’d say the majority of leftists I’ve encountered over the years hate those who disagree with them with a hatred that is visceral and insatiable. Some don’t, but those are in the minority and in any case are irrelevant because the haters overwhelm them.
She'll have to adapt her strategy to get that job, though.
No one can sleep with 50 million voters.
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