Posted on 11/08/2018 1:36:09 PM PST by Simon Green
Donald Trump’s new attorney general once said that judges should be Christian and proposed blocking non-religious people from judicial appointments.
Matthew Whitaker, who was made acting attorney general on Wednesday after Trump fired Jeff Sessions, said judges needed a “biblical view of justice” and questioned the judgment of secular lawyers.
Whitaker made the remarks at a conservative forum in April 2014, where he appeared as a candidate for the Republican US Senate nomination in Iowa. Video clips of the event were saved by People For the American Way, a liberal campaign group.
The Republican candidates were asked what justification they would use to block the confirmation of federal judges nominated by Barack Obama, who was then US president.
Whitaker said he wanted to know about a judge’s judicial philosophy, along with their views on natural law, natural rights and the US founding documents. But he added: “I don’t think that gets us far enough.”
“Because natural law is often used from the eye of the beholder, if you will,” Whitaker said. “I’d like to see things like their world view. What informs them? How have they lived their life? Are they people of faith? Do they have a biblical view of justice? Which I think is very important
The event moderator, conservative blogger Erick Erickson, asked Whitaker whether he required a “Levitical or New Testament” view of justice. Whitaker opted for the New Testament.
Whitaker went on: “What I know is that as long as they have that worldview, that they’ll be a good judge. And if they have a secular worldview, that ‘this is all we have here on Earth’, then I’m going to be very concerned about how they judge.”
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He is right, we are a Christian Nation AND our Constitution was written by Christian men.
I’m not seeing the problem here!
I love this guy!
I like this guy more and more.
Keep him on permanent. Full time.
Maybe Trump should just forget to nominate a new AG, and leave the acting one in place.
The scum at Gaurdian would like them to be Moslums!
I don’t see a problem here, other than we don’t have enough college football tight ends in federal positions.
Trump is going to fight for this man. Should be some great fireworks viewing.
Ok...now I really, really like this guy.
And they should be Men, not Women.
Thousands of years of human history knew this. We’ll just have to find out the hard way.
We have here Trump’s next (not acting) AG.
Trump may be trolling the libs with this guy. They may grow to loathe and hate him so intensely that they will vote for anyone as fast as possible just to get rid of Whitaker.
And if they don’t go for the eventual nominee, Whitaker stays on.
And so this is yet another win/win for our side.
I am not seeing a thing wrong with this.
OoooH! Heads be splodin’ all over.
Amen. Rightwing Christian too. Not fag-oriented leftards.
Yes. Who would you rather be judged by - a Catholic Clarence Thomas or the leftist God-haters on the SC?
Great. He should be AG.
"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."---Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 2001
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