Yesterday, just hours after the midterm elections had ended, Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and announced that he would be replaced by his Chief of Staff Matthew Whitaker. In a 2014 debate when he was running for the U.S. Senate, now acting attorney general Whitaker said judges should have a Christian worldview, and that a judge with a “secular worldview” would be problematic, according to reports from that time.
When answering a question about what he’d look for in judicial nominees, Whitaker said;
“What I’d like to see is things like their worldview, what informs them, how do you they live thier lives, are they people of faith? Do they have a Biblical view of justice? Which I think is very important… What I know is as long as they have that worldview, they’ll be a good judge. And if they have a secular worldview, where this is all we have here on Earth, then I’m going to be very concerned about how they judge,”
