Matthew Whitaker's troubling opinion: Judges need a biblical view
Editor's note: This column was originally published on May 4, 2014.
"I'd like to see things like their world view, what informs them. Are they people of faith? Do they have a biblical view of justice?"
— Matt Whitaker, during Iowa Family Leader debate
If elected to the U.S. Senate, former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker says he would only support federal judges who have a Biblical view, and specifically a New Testament view, of justice. "If they have a secular world view, then I'm going to be very concerned about how they judge," Whitaker said at an April 25, 2014, Family Leader debate.
Whitaker didn't return my call to his office, but as a lawyer, one might expect him to know that setting religious conditions for holding a public office would violate the Iowa and U.S. constitutions. He was effectively saying that if elected, he would see no place for a judge of Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, agnostic or other faith, or of no faith. Yet no one in the audience or on the podium seemed to have a problem with that, and his answer drew applause.
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