of Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts is being recorded for posterity.

IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, TO COMBAT THE RISING TIDE OF RELIGIOUS ORTHODOXY, THE DEMOCRATS GAVE THEIR LEADERS IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LEAVE TO MOVE WITHOUT LET OR HINDRANCE THROUGHOUT THE LAND, IN A REIGN OF INTIMIDATION, FRIGHT AND VERBAL TORTURE THAT MADE THE SPANISH INQUISITION OF 1834, TO BE A MERE FRAT PARTY BY COMPARISON . . .

Article VI of the U. S. Constitution prohibits any religious test required of nominees to public office. (United States Constitution under Article VI, Clause 3: “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.“) Nevertheless, that little archiac peculiarity did not in the least hinder some members from both parities of America’s most inclusive club from inquiring about the nominee’s faith.

Sens. Specter and Feinstein impose an unconstitutional religious test (Opinion Journal):
While questioning John Roberts on Tuesday, Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter asked: “Would you say that your views are the same as those expressed by John Kennedy when he was a candidate, and he spoke to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in September of 1960: ‘I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.’ ”

Hours later, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California made it worse: “In 1960, there was much debate about President John F. Kennedy’s faith and what role Catholicism would play in his administration. At that time, he pledged to address the issues of conscience out of a focus on the national interests, not out of adherence to the dictates of one’s religion. . . . My question is: Do you?“

New Rules of Borking
The Religious Test Clause
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WizBang has the details on Seantor Schumer’s insult to nominee John Roberts and the Judge’s great response to it.