Republicans Lie about "Catholic Court" Concerns
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:08 pm
DOUG
I have often asked out loud why it is that there are so many false reports that come out of the Republican camp. If the conservatives really have the truth on their side, why do they have to lie so much?
Now, regarding the Alito nomination, Republicans are spreading the rumour, unfounded, that Democrats are anti-Catholic and that they are concerned that the Supreme Court will be majority Catholic if Alito gets in.
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On the January 24 broadcast of ABC News' Nightline, correspondent Jake Tapper reported that if Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. is confirmed, a majority of Supreme Court justices will be Catholic. After noting that a majority-Catholic court "tends not to be something people make an issue out of, at least publicly," Tapper added: "But some liberals do have some concerns about such a Catholic court." Tapper quoted no identifiable Democrats or liberals during the segment...it has been, in fact, supporters of Bush's nominees who have made religion a key issue in the nomination process. In 2003, two years before Bush's first nomination to the Supreme Court, supporters of his appellate court nominees had begun the drumbeat of accusations that Democrats and liberals bore an anti-Catholic or anti-religious bias.
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From:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601270008
I have often asked out loud why it is that there are so many false reports that come out of the Republican camp. If the conservatives really have the truth on their side, why do they have to lie so much?
Now, regarding the Alito nomination, Republicans are spreading the rumour, unfounded, that Democrats are anti-Catholic and that they are concerned that the Supreme Court will be majority Catholic if Alito gets in.
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On the January 24 broadcast of ABC News' Nightline, correspondent Jake Tapper reported that if Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. is confirmed, a majority of Supreme Court justices will be Catholic. After noting that a majority-Catholic court "tends not to be something people make an issue out of, at least publicly," Tapper added: "But some liberals do have some concerns about such a Catholic court." Tapper quoted no identifiable Democrats or liberals during the segment...it has been, in fact, supporters of Bush's nominees who have made religion a key issue in the nomination process. In 2003, two years before Bush's first nomination to the Supreme Court, supporters of his appellate court nominees had begun the drumbeat of accusations that Democrats and liberals bore an anti-Catholic or anti-religious bias.
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From:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601270008