Kendra S. Horn: “I have had long, long feelings that political figures should not use religion for political gain, and it bothers me when…”

“I have had long, long feelings that political figures should not use religion for political gain, and it bothers me when I see something come to the floor, with no committee hearings by either Judiciary, on which I do not serve, or on Transportation and Infrastructure, on which I do serve. If someone wants to have the Ten Commandments in their government office and there is no interaction with the public, that is certainly a right they can have under the first amendment. And Moses, of course, begins the lawgivers of history over our center door. He is the first one I point to when constituents are brought into the House Chamber by me. And he was a great lawgiver. But the Constitution, I think, is very clear. We have an article III judiciary that is independent of the legislative and the executive branches. And yet here we are intervening, or attempting to intervene, despite all of the protestations I will hear, we are intervening in a State court case which has not even reached the Federal courts, and it has certainly not been reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States.”