The American Family Association Action’s Center for Judicial Renewal doesn't particularly like it when you say that it wants to impose an unconstitutional religious test on appointees to the Supreme Court and other federal courts.

But that's what it is. And this aggressive and exclusionary Christian nationalism, embraced by much of the religious right and the MAGA movement, is wrong, unconstitutional and un-American religious discrimination.

The argument is that there’s a big difference between a "preference" for specific religions among judges and an actual "religious test" for holding office. But that distinction means little when a political group uses its influence to pressure presidents and U.S. senators to treat their preference as a de facto religious test.

The bottom line is that conservative organizations are delving into the religious beliefs and practices of conservative judges to decide whether they would be acceptable to serve on the Supreme Court. The Center for Judicial Renewal’s site lists “worldview” as the first of “10 Principles of a Constitutionalist Judge,” explaining that “the greatest predictor of their faithful and constitutional performance on the bench is their ‘worldview’ or........

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