- Federal judge nominee Don Willett tweeted a joke in 2015 about marrying bacon.
- Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy questioned whether that made him disrespectful of Supreme Court precedent.
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Senator grills judicial nominee over old tweet about wanting to marry bacon
Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy took issue with a tweet joking about a constitutional right to marry bacon, suggesting it showed disrespect for the Supreme Court.
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WASHINGTON — Patrick Leahy, a top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday questioned a federal judgeship nominee's ability to interpret Supreme Court precedent over a tweet about wanting a constitutional right to marry bacon.
Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, who has been nominated to serve as
In Wednesday's confirmation hearing, Leahy suggested that the bacon tweet showed Willett's disdain for the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriages.
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"I don't think one would see that as praising the Supreme Court decisions," Leahy said of the tweet.
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