Democrats have a one-track mind.
Via Daily Mail:
If President Donald Trump is forced to pick an alternate Supreme Court nominee to Brett Kavanaugh, his top choice may be a female judge who has close ties to a conservative Christian group that helped inspire The Handmaid’s Tale.
Amy Coney Barrett, 46, was considered a leading backup as Kavanaugh’s nomination hung in the balance on Thursday, with a third accuser coming forward to allege sexual misconduct in his youth.
Activist groups have already registered ‘StopConeyBarrett.com’ in a bid to fight her potential nomination.
Barrett, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge on the Seventh Circuit was added to Trump’s shortlist of potential nominees last year, and was said to be among his top three picks before he settled on Kavanaugh.
After Trump announced Kavanaugh as his choice in July, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah commented that he assumed Barrett would be selected ‘next time’.
The fact that Barrett is a woman would provide a bulwark against allegations in the age of #MeToo – but Democrats would be just as unhappy with her nomination, with many seeing her as more conservative than Kavanaugh and possibly more likely to overturn Roe v Wade.
Liberal activists registered ‘StopConeyBarrett.com’ in June but it remains ready to be activated in a campaign against Barrett if she is nominated.
A practicing Catholic, Barrett has deep ties to People of Praise, a non-denominational Christian covenant group founded as part of a Catholic revitalization movement in 1971.
The group’s conservative tenets and practice of referring to female leaders as ‘handmaids’ helped inspire The Handmaid’s Tale, a book about a religious takeover of the U.S. government which is now a hit TV show, according to a 1986 interview with author Margaret Atwood.
The hit TV series has even inspired a familiar rallying cry against the Trump administration in the form protesters dressed in the red robes of the ‘handmaids’ as a commentary that the US is headed toward totalitarian rule.
The ‘handmaid’ protesters have also been spotted protesting at Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.
Barrett’s religious beliefs came under fire during her confirmation to the Seventh Circuit, with Senate Judiciary Committee minority leader Dianne Feinstein grilling her on her Catholic faith.
‘The dogma lives loudly within you, and that is a concern,’ Feinstein said while questioning Barrett on her view of Roe, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.