The Senate on Thursday confirmed Sarah Pitlyk, a Catholic lawyer and advocate for pro-life activist David Daleiden, as a judge for the Eastern District Court of Missouri.
Pitlyk, confirmed by a vote of 49 to 44, was a special counsel at the Thomas More Society, a legal firm that specializes in pro-life and religious freedom cases. She was nominated by President Trump to the district court in August.
In her favor were 49 Republicans, with 42 Democrats and one Republican, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), voting against her confirmation.
The new judge once clerked for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Belgium’s Catholic University of Leuven. While at Yale Law School, she founded the group Yale Law Students for Life.
Planned Parenthood, in a press release, called Pitlyk “extreme and unfit to judge.” They pointed to Pitlyk’s record defending pro-life measures, such as Iowa’s “heartbeat” bill, and her opposition to St. Louis’ city ordinance on abortion.
In her time at the Thomas More Society, Pitlyk defended pro-life advocate David Daleiden who in 2015 first produced tapes of secretly-recorded conversations with officials at Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue procurement companies.
Pitlyk also submitted a brief on behalf of 67 Catholic theologians and ethicists in the case Hobby Lobby v. Burwell, against the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate.
Full story at Catholic News Agency.
Thank you, Mr. Trump, for this judge and other good judges you’ve appointed. Of course, Big Abortion opposes anyone who is actually a Catholic and not one in-name-only like Biden or Pelosi. And, of course, they would oppose any faithful Christian or Jew or person who holds similar, traditional values.
49 +44 = 93. So seven senators missed the vote. Since Judges serve for life, these are all very important votes, with long term implications. I wonder what their reasons for missing thee vote were.
Not sure, but courage and discipline are missing so often in our society.
Pitlyk is a Catholic, unlike the “Pelosi model of Catholicism”. Susan Collins also needs to do some soul searching on her Catholicism…
Mike M., 7 Senators (2 Republicans and 5 Democrats) couldn’t even do their job and vote. Does not speak well for them.
So many Catholics cause scandal in the public square.
I pray they repent. Jesus says to repent twice in the passage. He is reminding us how important it is. I pray they make that turn and follow Christ and stop being concerned what the world thinks of them. Jesus was clear in telling us, if they hated you, let me tell you they hated me first. Too many want power, privilege, comfort, and praise from society and are not defending Christ or their faith.
Hurray for Sarah Pitlyk! What a record of heroism defending life and Catholicism. Best wishes for a long and successful judicial career.
Excellent! A great blessing! Thanks, President Trump!
This is why I will donate as much as I can to President Donaldjtrump.com . Socialist-Democrats pray for Infanticide and euthanasia. Me, I am against both forms of execution.
God bless and protect her. “Lord give her wisdom, the attendant at thy throne”.
Hooray for Judge Pitlyk and the President who nominated her ! And the hell with NARAL and the political lemmings who slavishly bend the knee to it !