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The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

The Annoyed Man wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:02 pm I read about this earlier today, but I think it was at AmericanThinker.com. Anyway, the article made the point that asking these people about their religious beliefs (“Ms Rao, do you believe that gay marriage is a sin?”) is actually a violation of their powers under Article VI of the Constitution. In Paragraph III, it very specifically says:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

When Corey Booker asked Amy Comey Barrett in 2017 if she was Catholic during her confirmation hearings to the appellate court, that was a violation of the limits on his authority under Article VI, and he had no right at all to ask it.

When Feinstein told Barret in that same hearing, “The [Catholic] dogma lives strongly in you, and that is concerning’, she was violating the limits on her authority under Article VI, and she had no right to ask it at all.

When Corey asked Rao today, “Do you think that gay marriage is a sin”, he was violating the limits on his authority under Article VI, and he had no right to ask it.

But don’t be surprised. The democrats use the Constitution for toilet paper. They really don’t believe they have any limitations on their powers.

bblhd672 wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 7:49 am

The Annoyed Man wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:02 pm I read about this earlier today, but I think it was at AmericanThinker.com. Anyway, the article made the point that asking these people about their religious beliefs (“Ms Rao, do you believe that gay marriage is a sin?”) is actually a violation of their powers under Article VI of the Constitution. In Paragraph III, it very specifically says:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

When Corey Booker asked Amy Comey Barrett in 2017 if she was Catholic during her confirmation hearings to the appellate court, that was a violation of the limits on his authority under Article VI, and he had no right at all to ask it.

When Feinstein told Barret in that same hearing, “The [Catholic] dogma lives strongly in you, and that is concerning’, she was violating the limits on her authority under Article VI, and she had no right to ask it at all.

When Corey asked Rao today, “Do you think that gay marriage is a sin”, he was violating the limits on his authority under Article VI, and he had no right to ask it.

But don’t be surprised. The democrats use the Constitution for toilet paper. They really don’t believe they have any limitations on their powers.

I understand judges want to be confirmed, but it seems that a proper response to that line of questions would be to state that they are a violation of Article VI of the Constitution. Only socialist progressives will have a problem with it.

The Annoyed Man wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:35 pm

bblhd672 wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 7:49 am

The Annoyed Man wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:02 pm I read about this earlier today, but I think it was at AmericanThinker.com. Anyway, the article made the point that asking these people about their religious beliefs (“Ms Rao, do you believe that gay marriage is a sin?”) is actually a violation of their powers under Article VI of the Constitution. In Paragraph III, it very specifically says:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

When Corey Booker asked Amy Comey Barrett in 2017 if she was Catholic during her confirmation hearings to the appellate court, that was a violation of the limits on his authority under Article VI, and he had no right at all to ask it.

When Feinstein told Barret in that same hearing, “The [Catholic] dogma lives strongly in you, and that is concerning’, she was violating the limits on her authority under Article VI, and she had no right to ask it at all.

When Corey asked Rao today, “Do you think that gay marriage is a sin”, he was violating the limits on his authority under Article VI, and he had no right to ask it.

But don’t be surprised. The democrats use the Constitution for toilet paper. They really don’t believe they have any limitations on their powers.

I understand judges want to be confirmed, but it seems that a proper response to that line of questions would be to state that they are a violation of Article VI of the Constitution. Only socialist progressives will have a problem with it.

I absolutely agree. The ONLY people who ask those kinds of questions are the commies on the left. Conservatives NEVER ask them - even of a democrat nominee. Ultimately Rao will not get a single vote from the Feinstein/Harris/Hirono/Booker/Blumenthal cabal. Not one. So it REALLY doesn’t hurt her odds of confirmation if she puts them in their place - respectfully - and just might firm up votes from the squishy republicans. If I’m one of those nominees, and I’m asked a question like “Do you think that gay marriage is a sin”, my answer would be, “respectfully Senator, my personal views on the matter are irrelevant to the law, and Aricle VI of the Constitution says, word for word, that ‘no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.’ Since we are engaged in a Constitutional process here, it harms that process to ask, or be required to answer questions that are extraConstitutional with regard to religion. I hope you will receive this answer in the spirit of respect for the Constitution that it was intended.”

Soccerdad1995 wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:51 pm But let a conservative ask anything remotely related to religious beliefs of a Muslim nominee and watch the MSM jump all over them.