I did not watch all the hearings so I won't disagree.
I already spoke out about Barrett. Asking about religion/abortion IMHO wasn't the issue. You ask the question then move on. I don't recall if they kept hammering her on it. I know the media did.
Now lets contrast with current nominee about sentencing on child porn cases. They just went on and on after she answered it numerous times.
The barrett hearings were not structured the same due to COVID. Each senator only had 30 minutes with 20 minutes follow up and the rest was written.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts_Supreme_Court_nomination#Questions_and_answersQuestions and answers
During Judge William H. Pryor's confirmation hearings for a federal bench in Atlanta, Senator Charles Schumer said he was troubled by Pryor's "deeply held personal beliefs".[7] There were predictions by some, notably the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights,[8] Notre Dame law professor Charles Rice in the National Review,[7] the Center for Jewish Values, and the Catholic organization Fidelis[7] that the pattern would be repeated with Roberts' confirmation hearing. Most Rev. Charles Chaput, OFM Cap, Archbishop of Denver, noted that "many people already believe that a new kind of religious discrimination is very welcome at the Capitol, even among elected officials who claim to be Catholic," concluding that "the bias against 'papism' is alive and well in America." However, others did not interpret the clause as prohibiting Senate inquiry into the religious beliefs of a nominee; rather they held that religious inquiries by the Senate are not the application of a religious Test (or disqualification), but a valid form of inquiry into Roberts' source of values and beliefs, which they consider to be highly relevant to a position such as Supreme Court Justice.
On September 13, during the second day of confirmation hearings Senator Arlen Specter asked Roberts whether his faith would affect his opinions on the bench. Roberts responded that "there is nothing in my personal view based on faith or other sources that would prevent me from applying the precedents of the court faithfully in accord with the principles of stare decisis." Later the same day, he also said "my faith and my religious beliefs do not play a role in my judging. ... I look to the law. I do not look to the Bible or other religious books."[6] On September 14, Senator Dianne Feinstein asked Roberts about the "role Catholicism would play" in his tenure as a justice. Roberts declined to endorse President Kennedy's statement that "separation of church and state is absolute," telling Feinstein, "I don't know what you mean by 'absolute'." Some consider such questioning to be a revival of anti-Catholic bigotry reminiscent of the public concern about Catholic influence that presidential candidate John F. Kennedy faced in 1960, and exemplified by the controversial Blaine Amendments.[9]
