“The dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.” So said Senator Dianne Feinstein (D.CA.) after she had finished her outrageous and shameful interrogation of Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett about whether Barrett’s Catholic faith rendered her unfit to be a federal judge. Despite Feinstein’s best efforts to expose Barrett’s putatively unacceptable and subversive Catholic beliefs, in September 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee nevertheless confirmed her appointment to a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. So far, the Republic has withstood the blow. But now, with President Trump’s nomination of D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh […]