Posted on 07/28/2019 11:16:24 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The Senate today confirmed Brian Buescher, President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. District Court in Nebraska. Readers may recall that Senate Democrats attacked Buescher for his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic service organization. I wrote about this here.
Sen. Kamala Harris was one of the Senators who led the charge against Buescher during his Committee hearing. His other main adversary was Sen. Mazie Hirono, one of the Senate’s dimmest members.
Harris isn’t dim, but she’s a hard core leftist and an incorrigible opportunist. Thus, her suggestion that Buescher’s membership in the Knights of Columbus makes him unfit to serve as a federal judge was over-determined.
The argument was that the Knights of Columbus takes the “extreme” position that a marriage is the union of a man and a woman. But, as Ramesh Ponnuru pointed out at the time, Buescher belongs to two other organizations that consider marriage to be the union of a man and woman (and that also are anti-abortion, another of the Knights’ “extreme” positions). The two organizations are the Catholic Church and the Republican Party.
Do Hirono and Harris think that Buescher’s Catholicism raises problems with his nomination? I assume they do, to the extent that Buescher takes Catholic doctrine seriously.
Buescher declined Hirono’s invitation to resign from the Knights of Columbia as a condition of being confirmed. The Senate confirmed him anyway.
The vote was 51-40. No Democrat voted to confirm Buescher. Harris and the other Senate Democrats running for president didn’t vote.
But Harris is already on record that Buescher’s membership in a venerable Catholic service organization undermines his fitness for the judiciary. If the Democrats nominate Harris, she should be called on to defend this stance, which likely won’t sit well with serious Catholics.
Beat me to it..wonder if President Trump will glom onto that...
He doesn't really do that -- he's like the Patsy Cline of politics, once he takes it, he makes it his own. :^)
Kind of an open-hand slap of a “compliment” to him...
Love Patsy Cline’s voice and music but also know how she was about deciding who the song “really belonged to”....
....with great power, comes great responsibility.....
or sumpin’ like dat
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