Amy Coney Barrett

On the first day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Judge Amy Coney Barrett thanked the American people for their encouragement and prayers.

Sens. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) defended Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s Catholic faith during the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Monday.

Clapping back against attacks on Supreme Court Justice Nominee Amy Coney Barrett's Catholic faith, Vice President Mike Pence asserted over the weekend, “Well, I’ve got news for the Democrats and their friends in Hollywood – the dogma lives loudly in me."

Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled to begin on Monday and conservatives are warning that "the Brett Kavanaugh sleaze machine is back."

According to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll, a plurality of registered voters now favor confirming Barrett to the high court.

It was recently revealed that Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett signed a statement in 2006 championing a pro-life agenda. 

While rancor over our nation’s highest court has always been with us, such divisiveness is especially heightened in these days. As we’ve seen in previous Daily Articles, the Supreme Court has taken on a legislative function in recent years, discovering “rights” to abortion and same-sex marriage, among other rulings. This power makes membership on the court especially crucial.

At root, there’s more to this hatred of SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett than the legitimate disagreements and debate inherent to the nomination process. There’s even more to it than being potentially the third appointee of a President despised by so many. The savage incivility already being directed at Barrett can be traced back to Roe v. Wade. As Kim Colby, legal scholar for Christian Legal Society suggested last week on the BreakPoint podcast, the decision to legalize abortion has poisoned our political system and escalated court nominations to literal life and death issues.

Across the coming weeks of divisiveness over confirmation hearings and the presidential election, my prayer for Judge Barrett and for all believers is that we will demonstrate the integrity of Daniel. His political opponents “could find no ground for complaint or any fault” (Daniel 6:4), so they reverted to attacking him “in connection with the law of his God” (v. 5). If skeptics are going to find fault with us, let them say that we are too committed to our Lord.

In a recent article, the Washington Post argued that Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett could be disqualifed from filling the empty Supreme Court seat becuase she spoke at a Christian conference. Conservatives are defending Barrett, likening the claims to the implementation of a religious test.