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12/22/2002 Archived Entry: "potential judicial nominee"

A POTENTIAL BUSH JUDICIAL NOMINEE STRIKES BACK AT THE LIBERAL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS: The New York Times reported that Douglas Kmiec was under consideration for a federal judgeship, and at least one liberal group pounced. Kmiec is an outspoken judicial conservative whose writings take the idea of natural law, as found in the Declaration of Independence, seriously. Worse, he is a pro-life Roman Catholic.

Kmiec wonders if this criticism is an attempt to disqualify people of certain religious and moral beliefs from the federal judiciary. As he points out in an Opinion Journal piece, this would be precisely the sort of religious test the authors of the First Amendment would have opposed. Link found via Toogood Reports.