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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:51 PM Mar 2022

Graham Questions Judge Jackson: 'How Important Is Your Faith To You?'

Sen. Lindsey Graham, D-S.C., questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her faith and religion and compared his questioning to criticisms Democrats had for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearings.

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. Stupid question, but interesting that he prefaced it by saying he
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:54 PM
Mar 2022

goes to church about 3 times a year.

He was mostly super ticked because the other Judge in running — from SC — didn’t get the nomination.

TheBlackAdder

(28,162 posts)
3. Lindsey is practicing his own Replacement Theory--Ensuring the Purge of Protestant SCOTUS Justices.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:06 PM
Mar 2022

.

Republicans should be bashed for stacking the court with Catholics, when USA is 42% Protestant.

SCOTUS is 6 Catholics, 2 Jewish and one Angelican/Catholic.

While Justice Gorsuch is Angelican, the Protestant faith that is closest to the Roman Catholic Church,
Gorsuch is actually Anglo-Catholic. He is a sub-sect of Angelican that aligns very closely with Catholics.

Judge Jackson is a Protestant.



It sure seems like Protestants were purged from the SCOTUS.

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Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,453 posts)
7. The one and ONLY correct answer to this question is
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:33 PM
Mar 2022

NONE of your effing business.

Lindsey's near-hysterical performance was just too much. When HE was done, he stormed from the room. Obviously to find his fainting couch.

Trust_Reality

(1,722 posts)
8. I have doubts about Graham's mental health.
Wed Mar 23, 2022, 12:43 AM
Mar 2022

I have no questions about his integrity. Like almost all Republicans he places party and self-serve far above anything resembling integrity. It is really quite astonishing.

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