Jonah, I’m glad you brought up Ashcroft because on this Pryor fight (as with judges Owens, Kuhl, and Holmes); I think it is important to see this as a pro-life religious test. That they are Catholic makes for great “Catholics Need Not Apply” ads—which I think are great (and, just to clarify, I do not think are the least disingenuous). But I also think that it is important for Catholics and non-Catholics alike to know that this is not just about Rome. The papal factor just makes it all the easier, as we are seeing with Pryor. But this could be a pro-life evangelical who cites the Bible a little too much and who opposes abortion because it is an abomination against the beliefs that make him who he is. And, yes, Ashcroft certainly knows how that kind of thing goes.