A Preview of Biden’s Activist Judiciary
Liberalism’s advance requires the diminution of religious freedom.
by George Neumayr
September 25, 2021, 10:02 PM
To advance his secularism, Joe Biden is busy appointing opponents of the First Amendment to the courts, as evident in his selection of Beth Robinson to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. As Sen. Ted Cruz noted at Robinson’s Senate hearing earlier this month, Robinson has “a marked hostility towards religious liberty.”
As a lawyer in Vermont, Robinson helped a woman sue Catholic owners of a print shop for not granting her request to make cards for a pro-abortion group. Cruz drew attention to Robinson’s legal brief in the case, in which she described the pro-life views of the Catholic owners of the print shop as “invidious” and “pernicious.”
Cruz asked her: “How might a litigant in the Second Circuit have any confidence that as a judge you would actually follow the law, and in particular, honor the religious liberty protections in the Constitution?”
Robinson argued implausibly that her client, a pro-abortion Catholic, was the real victim of religious discrimination: “In particular, she had asked to print cards for Vermont Catholics for Free Choice. Her contention was that the [printers] said ‘we won’t print these cards because we don’t think Catholics can be for choice.’ She brought a claim for discrimination on the basis of creed.”
An astonished Cruz replied that this argument amounted to asking the court to say: “‘We’re going to force you to say that the Catholic Church is pro-abortion, even if you don’t believe it is.’ Is that right?”
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