Politico’s pretentious, error-filled hit against Amy Coney Barrett

It s open season on Amy Coney Barrett, the appeals-court judge reported to top President Trump s list of candidates to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg s seat on the Supreme Court. Barrett is a devout Roman Catholic and a member of an ecumenical charismatic community, so naturally, Democrats and their media allies are trying to cast her as Dangerous Theocrat.

But the least they can do is get the facts right. Sadly, it seems that s too much to ask. Witness Villanova professor Massimo Faggioli s flatulent hit piece published at Politico Thursday. Faggioli charges Barrett with membership in a Christian group with a highly authoritarian internal structure. This, he argues, means interrogating her religious faith is within bounds in a potential confirmation battle.

Never mind that the US Constitution bars such interrogation ( no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States ). It s harder still to take Faggioli seriously when he makes three basic factual errors in a short piece.

via nypost.com