Sessions litmus test for judges

"I remember Judge Griffin Bell, a great judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, President Carter's Attorney General. He was speaking to an Alabama Bar Association meeting when President Reagan was in office, not long after he left as Attorney General. The bar members asked: Judge Bell, what do you think about this litmus test that President Reagan is supposed to be applying to judges? I will never forget, he walked up to the microphone and said: We need a litmus test for judges. We don't need anybody on the Supreme Court who does not believe in prayer at football games.

This is where we are. We have the courts of the United States prepared to send in the 82nd Airborne to some high school that allows a voluntary prayer to be said before the ball game starts--an expression that there is something more important than who is the biggest, meanest, and toughest out on the football field."

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