Amy Coney Barrett hid her membership in the religious group that inspired hit TV show The Handmaid's

[Klaralven]

EXCLUSIVE: Supreme Court frontrunner Amy Coney Barrett hid her membership in the religious group that inspired hit TV show The Handmaid's Tale and teaches that wives have to obey their husbands in everything - even in voting

Amy Coney Barrett and her husband Jesse are members of People of Praise, a small group that teaches that wives have to obey their husbands in everything
Barrett, 48, concealed her membership from what has been described as a 'Big Brother' religious group from senators when she was before the Justice Committee in 2017
Barrett is Donald Trump's favorite to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Trump previously nominated her to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
The People of Praise religious group inspired the hit TV show The Handmaid's Tale, which depicts a dystopian world where women are oppressed
All male and single female member of People of Praise are assigned a personal advisor of their own sex, originally called 'heads' for men and 'handmaids' for women
The 'handmaid' title was dropped after the runaway success of the Hulu series and replaced with 'woman leader'
Democratic senators are almost certain to bring up her affiliation if she is to be nominated and goes before the Justice Committee later this year

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8773521/Trumps-favorite-Supreme-Court-seat-Amy-Coney-Barrett-hid-ties-religious-group.html

[Funtatlaguy]

1. All the Dem Senators should wear RED into hearings.

[Rice4VP]

13. That would be EPIC

[Klaralven]

14. .

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Remind me again why Shrub's nominee, Harriet Miers, was turned away by

Senate Republicans but Amy Coney Barrett is likely to garner 100% Republican votes before the hearing.

[totodeinhere]

5. Because back then there were a few decent Republicans left.

But not any more. The party has turned into a Trump cult.

[FBaggins]

25. Very different level of qualification

No significant clerkship or scholarship. No judicial experience (let alone on a court of appeals). She simply wasn't qualified and even the Republicans figured it out.

Unfortunately, nothing similar applies if the pick is Barret (as expected).

[tritsofme]

31. Other than both being women, their nominations have little in common.

Miers was simply a Bush lackey, she got the nod for being friends with him, and had no history of feality to the Federalist Society.

Barrett, on the other hand, has been groomed for this moment for decades. When Senate Republicans rejected Miers, it was because they wanted someone like Barrett.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. By what stretch of logic

can a woman with those so-called beliefs serve in a position of power? Isn’t it anathema to the cult to allow a woman to make decisions from a position of power over men?

[flying rabbit]

7. Clearly, her

husband will instruct (through god of course) on the proper decisions.

[blm]

17. Then her HUSBAND needs to testify about HIS principles and beliefs.

[flying rabbit]

19. No.

He is not being nominated. If she wants to be controlled then Fatnixon needs to find another lackey to nominate.

[Colleen8406]

37. The woman are referred to as handmaids

individual members are supervised in their daily lives by a person regarded as more 'spiritually mature.'"

“The highest office a woman can hold in the community is "woman leader" (formerly "handmaid&quot . Women leaders "teach women on womanly affairs, give advice, help in troubled situations" and lead specialized women's activities.[3] The term handmaiden was chosen in 1971 as a reference to Mary, the mother of Jesus, who, in most English translations of the Bible, described herself as "the handmaid of the Lord" or a woman who is close to God.[7] The community teaches that husbands are the head of the household as well as the spiritual head of their wives. While it emphasizes traditional gender roles, the organization encourages women to pursue higher education and employment.[3]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_Praise

[Volaris]

41. Someone here suggested having her husband testify.

Sounds like a plan to me, since hes the one who's making all of her decisions.

[totodeinhere]

4. It won't make any difference. The Republicans will ram her through no matter what.

n/t

[Klaralven]

6. She'll have to pray before she is rammed.

[StClone]

23. What you said

[TeamPooka]

8. Hopefully her husband will speak for her at these hearings. We need to hear from her boss.

[TruckFump]

9. Here is a thought.

If she hid the affiliation in the hearings for the lower federal court position, could the house start impeachment proceedings against her on that?

[totodeinhere]

10. The House could impeach her or any judge and they wouldn't even need a reason.

The Constitution gives the House unlimited power to impeach.

[TruckFump]

11. True.

But the articles have to state the charges.

I am ill over someone like her replacing RBG.

[StClone]

24. Hi I am Amy an Extremist Religious whack Job and MY Right wing views are even zealous

Did I tell you I get to pray as the Youngest Justice ever. Thank You Master.

[TruckFump]

27. Scary.

What’s so awful, is that is most likely close to the truth.

[StClone]

33. God Awful

What makes her Justice for life material? Really! Amy's nomination, and likely confirmation, is a mockery, right up there with Clarence Thomas (and almost Bork). What makes them "suitable" is complicity to do the biding of the elites cloaked in "Her beautiful Religious convictions." She is Judicial trash and an extremism. Some credentials, aye?

[TruckFump]

35. You said it perfectly IMO.

She is RW judicial trash.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. They would have to show evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors,

as with any other impeachment, to convict and remove from office. Most of the federal judges who have been convicted had committed financial crimes like bribery.

[PTWB]

18. The senate would still have to vote to convict her with 67 votes.

Impeachment at this point is political theater because Republicans are spineless.

[TruckFump]

20. But, the exercise could get us past Nov 3 or later.

It would be to buy time to get tRump out of the WH.

[radius777]

45. Moscow Mitch would refuse witnesses and dismiss it instantly. /nt

[Volaris]

42. A better question is, why did she feel the need to do that to begin with?

[kimbutgar]

15. Will she have to check with her husband on the cases she rules on?

[Cognitive_Resonance]

16. "Religious group"? It's a blasted cult. Bunch of looney toons. nt

[Yavin4]

21. I tried watching that show. It was just too dark.

I could not continue.

[bdamomma]

29. It

takes some getting use to watch. But it is dark and chilling and I hope we do not see it here.

[alp227]

22. Daily Mail is not reliable

Both left and right wing media have challenged this story, like Vox and Washington Examiner.

https://www.vox.com/culture/21453103/amy-coney-barrett-handmaids-tale-supreme-court

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-amy-coney-barrett-handmaids-tale-smear-that-just-wont-die

[LAS14]

36. Thanks! I like to think that Dems represent critical thinking and a ...

... dedication to the truth. Sometimes that gets a little fuzzy in DU.

[Klaralven]

39. But she's a member of a conservative, authoritarian, hierarchical, and patriarchal cult

The only debate is whether People of Praise is the specific such cult that inspired Atwood.

The nature of People of Praise is not in doubt.

https://www.newsweek.com/role-women-amy-coney-barrett-people-praise-1534033

[SophieJean]

40. Yes, exactly right.

[SophieJean]

43. The Vox article is hardly representative of the "left."

Author Grady seems to only be interested in making sure no one is confused about the connection between Barrett's Catholicism and the extremist group, People of Praise, of which she is a member, and the supposed link to Atwood's Handmaid's Tale. Apparently that may have been a different extremist group called People of Hope. Both groups are made up of religious extremists who abhor the idea of women having bodily autonomy, but Grady doesn't seem concerned by that fact. She repeatedly negates the connection to Handmaid's Tale, (although female advisers in People of Praise were called handmaids at one time,) deliberately minimizing the extremism of People of Praise, and not bothering to explain why it is not a normal ideology within the Catholic religion.
Grady's real agenda is to both-sides the entirely justified anger and anxiety from progressives over Barrett being chosen to replace Ginsburg, while giving equal weight to the laments from the religious right that Catholicism is being disrespected. That's not the case at all, and her article is offensive because that is exactly the attack Barrett's supporters are already using.
Her conclusion sums it all up: "The result is a controversy about two political parties that increasingly see themselves as pushed to the breaking point — and who believe they have no space left to interact with the other side in good faith." Sure, that's what's happening alright. Only one political party is busy shoving their Christo-fascist scotus pick onto the supreme court, and who will likely undo all of Ginsburg's amazing accomplishments.

A far better critique is made by Elie Mystal of The Nation:
Amy Coney Barrett is an Extremist-Just Not the Kind You Think
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/amy-coney-barrett-extremist/

[radius777]

46. Agree. The 'debunking' articles use trivia to arrive at a bothsiderist conclusion.

The fact remains that Atwood's novel was inspired by misogynist far-right religious cults (not any one in particular) which emerged as a backlash to women's rights, and Barrett is a member of such a cult.

[Mr. Evil]

26. I sure wish Al Franken was still around.

His questions for her at the confirmation hearing would be epic.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Sounds like she must demur to her husband as a matter of contract

So who is being nominated, her, or her husband? Will he be making the decisions?

[Master_Monstruwacan]

30. How can she be a lawyer or a judge

if womenfolk aren't permitted to read?

[radius777]

47. She's merely a tool.

The RW in the past 40 years or so has realized they can't stop social justice, so will simply use members of historically oppressed groups (women, PoC, gays, etc) to sellout and shuck and jive for the system.

[COL Mustard]

32. Sadly, 52 people get to make the decision for 300M+ of us

Trump plus 51 Republican senators. We're scrood.

[area51]

34. Amy Looney Barrett

[soldierant]

38. Someone pointed out that a "Coney" is a term used for a hot do. Amy Hot Dog Barrett

doesn't sund bad ... but a "coney" is also a small animal in the lapine family ... and I think "Amy Wild Hare Barrett" sounds even better.

[Cha]

44. Barrett supports a Murderous, Treasonous Psychopath..

that makes her one.

[intheflow]

48. Um, okay. It was book first, published in 1985.

The "inspiration" for the show had nothing to do with this group. Awood has said the book was based on a similar group but not this specific group.