Biden's extreme judicial nominee cannot reach the bench
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The nomination of Loren L. AliKhan to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia should be opposed by the United States Senate.
Hiram Sasser is executive general counsel for First Liberty Institute, a non-profit law firm dedicated to defending religious freedom for all. First Liberty represented Capitol Hill Baptist Church in 2020. Read more at FirstLiberty.org.
Indeed, AliKhan’s arguments were too extreme for all 9 members of the U.S. Supreme Court. In the 2012 case Hosanna Tabor v. EEOC, AliKhan’s extreme legal theory, if adopted, would have essentially eviscerated the first freedom of the Constitution. Her brief took aim at the ministerial exception, which is a religious employer’s First Amendment right to make decisions about hiring and firing ministers without government interference.