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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

As Judge Amy Coney-Barratt prepares for Senate confirmation hearings scheduled to begin on Monday,

conservatives are warning that the Brett Kavanaugh-Sleeze machine is back. As an example,

they are citing a Washington Post article titled Amy Coney-Barrant served as a handmade in Christian group People of Praise.

The group changed the title of Handmaid to women's leaders three years ago, in light of

the dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Nonetheless, the Post used that misleading title

in its headline and waited until the article's tenth paragraph to

note that handmade was originally adopted by the group in reference to the biblical description of

Mary as the Handmaid of the Lord. Christopher Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,

tweeted, it's no coincidence that people who don't like originalism are basing their understanding of the word handmade on a novel from the 1980s.

The organization Catholic vote condemned the story as well. The Washington Post is suggesting that Judge Barrett's religious faith should be on trial during her confirmation.

Democrats are playing with fire. Judge Barrett's upcoming hearings are already so divisive in large part because her influence, if confirmed to the Supreme Court, will be so significant.

Whatever our position on Judge Barrett's nomination, it is court will be so significant.

Whatever our position on Judge Barrett's nomination, it is worth noting that across most of human history, a person with her background would have had few opportunities to achieve such

stature.

Barrett grew up in a suburb of New Orleans, the oldest of seven children. Her father worked as an

attorney for Shell Oil, and her mother was a high school French teacher and homemaker. Her story

is like that of so many Americans. Hard work and a passion for excellence propelled her to the

remarkable success she has experienced. Mike Pence's father ran a group of gas stations in Columbus, Indiana.

His paternal grandfather worked in the Chicago stockyards.

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