No Place for Anti-Catholic Bigotry in Coney Barrett Hearings

Some media outlets and some Democrats, including some members of Congress, began focusing on Barrett’s Catholicism when she was rumored to be the president’s choice in the past week. Perhaps most concerning was the grilling about her religious views by Senate Judiciary Committee members Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who is himself Catholic, during Barrett’s 2017 confirmation hearings for the Circuit Court, and the reply this week by their committee colleague Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), when she said “no” when asked if questions about Barrett’s religious views would be off the table.