Mary Vought on Religion and Confirmation Hearings

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🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Today's Daily Signal Podcast features an interview from the great “Problematic Women” podcast. As Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett prepares for Senate hearings next week, many are wondering whether she’ll again face harsh questions about her Catholic faith.

Mary Vought, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund and wife of Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, joins us to explain why this line of questioning is unconstitutional. Her husband, she recalls, faced similar scrutiny in his own Senate confirmation hearing.

We also cover these stories:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is speaking out against attacks on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
President Donald Trump says he no longer feels any symptoms of COVID, according to his doctor, Sean Conley.
Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck, has been released from jail after posting a million dollar bail.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, October 8. I'm Rachel
0:09.0	Dall Judas. And I'm Kate Trinco. Today we're sharing an interview from the Great Problematic Women Podcast with Mary Vote, a political communicator in Washington, D.C.
0:20.0	Mary's husband faced religious discrimination during his Senate confirmation hearing and she'll talk about that in light of the criticism of Amy Koney Barrett's faith.
0:30.0	Don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast podcast please be sure to leave a review
0:35.0	or a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:39.0	Now on to our top news. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is speaking to a
0:54.0	to a court nominee Judge Amy Koney Barrett.
0:55.8	Referring to a Washington Post article headlined,
0:59.1	Amy Koney Barrett served as a handmaid
1:02.3	in Christian group People of Praise, McConnell said in a statement,
1:06.5	the word handmade appears dozens of times in the King James Bible.
1:11.1	It was good enough for the Virgin Mary. But now, because one liberal author put it in
1:16.7	the title of an anti-religious novel in the 1980s, the press tries to imply that one of the most brilliant and powerful women in the legal world is anti-woman.
1:28.0	McConnell added, United States Senators are suggesting that Judge Barrett is too Christian or the wrong kind of Christian to be a good judge.
1:38.5	Every Supreme Court justice in history has possessed personal views. Judges have a job to... and nation to assert the Justice Barrett's particular faith makes her uniquely unqualified
1:55.7	for this promotion. The Senate Majority Leader concluded, these disgraceful attacks only
2:01.8	reinforce why it is crucial to confirm judges like Judge Barrett
2:06.6	who understand and respect our Constitution, including its protections for all Americans'
2:12.4	religious liberty.
2:13.4	President Donald Trump says he no longer feels any symptoms of COVID
2:18.1	according to his doctor Sean Connolly.
2:20.3	In a memo, Connolly wrote,
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