July 27, 2005
By Wendy Long
National Review Bench Memos
The question has become even more interesting with that scoop by Washington Times reporter Charles Hurt Kathryn
mentioned earlier.
Hurt induced George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley to divulge his sources for a column in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, in which Turley reported that liberal Democrat U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) had grilled Supreme Court nominee John Roberts privately last week about his Catholic faith and what he would do "if the law required a ruling that his church considers immoral."
The sources for the Durbin-Roberts exchange, Turley said, were . . . Senator Durbin himself and his press secretary, Joe Shoemaker. But Shoemaker insists that Turley is lying. He says Durbin asked no such question.
Regardless of how this little spat shakes out, one thing is certain: Liberal pressure groups and Democratic senators, including Durbin, have long sought to impose a litmus test for federal judges, and especially Supreme Court justices. Men and women of Christian, particularly Catholic, faith need not apply.
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