Unconstitutional Religious Tests Against Nominees

Unconstitutional Religious Tests Against Nominees
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Family Research Council released a new publication today that documents ten incidents in the past two years where U.S. senators have interrogated nominees concerning their personal religious beliefs.    

The questioning of 12 senators is examined in "Rebels Without A Clause: When Senators Run Roughshod Over the 'No Religious Test' Clause of the U.S. Constitution." Those senators include: Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and then-Senator Al Franken.

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