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Biden-Harris Would Deal a Huge Blow to Religious Liberty

Biden-Harris Would Deal a Huge Blow to Religious Liberty
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, right, and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speak in a press conference in Wilmington, Del., on Aug. 13, 2020. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Josh Hammer
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Toward the end of Vice President Mike Pence’s resounding defeat of Sen. Kamala Harris in Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate, the two officials tussled on the pending Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett and the despicable deluge of anti-Catholic bigotry her nomination has unleashed. Harris, one of the leading arsonists during the well-orchestrated 2018 character assassination of then-Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, tried to mollify wary voters in advance of Barrett’s own impending confirmation hearings. “Joe Biden and I are both people of faith,” Harris hectored, “and it’s insulting to suggest that we would knock anyone for their faith.”

Josh Hammer
Josh Hammer
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Josh Hammer is opinion editor of Newsweek, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project, a syndicated columnist through Creators, and a contributing editor for Anchoring Truths. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal, and cultural issues, Hammer is a constitutional attorney by training. He hosts “The Josh Hammer Show,” a Newsweek podcast, and co-hosts the Edmund Burke Foundation's “NatCon Squad” podcast. Hammer is a college campus speaker through Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Young America's Foundation, as well as a law school campus speaker through the Federalist Society. Prior to Newsweek and The Daily Wire, where he was an editor, Hammer worked at a large law firm and clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Hammer has also served as a John Marshall Fellow with the Claremont Institute and a fellow with the James Wilson Institute. Hammer graduated from Duke University, where he majored in economics, and from the University of Chicago Law School. He lives in Florida, but remains an active member of the State Bar of Texas.
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