The Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative political action group, has released a new ad that uses the voice of John F. Kennedy to defend the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
Barrett, who is Catholic, has come under fire over concerns that her religious views could impact her rulings, especially in cases involving abortion. But the Judicial Crisis Network defends her nomination in their ad with a speech from then-Senator Kennedy on religious intolerance that he gave in 1960.
“For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed,” Kennedy says in the ad, over a montage showing the Supreme Court, himself, and Barrett, “in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew — or a Quaker — or a Unitarian — or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim — but tomorrow it may be you.”
If confirmed, Barrett would be far from the only Catholic on the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts is Catholic, as are Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and Brett Kavanaugh. Justice Neil Gorsuch, although he was raised Catholic, attends an Episcopal church, and the remaining two Justices, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, are both Jewish.
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