Leahy Berates Federal Judicial Nominee Over Joke Tweet About Marrying Bacon

Leahy Berates Federal Judicial Nominee Over Joke Tweet About Marrying Bacon (The Washington Free Beacon)

Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.) on Wednesday grilled Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett over a tweet he sent in 2015 saying he would support a constitutional right to "marry bacon."

President Donald Trump has nominated Willett to serve on the New Orleans-based United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Leahy brought up the tweet, which the judge sent on April 29, 2015, during his questioning of Willett at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The Obergefell v. Hodges same-sex marriage Supreme Court case was argued a day earlier, and the nation's highest court ruled two months later that same-sex marriage is a fundamental right.