Sen. Mike Lee asks Amy Coney Barrett about religious freedom, persecution

Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a Latter-day Saint, turned his questions to religious freedom and persecution in the Supreme Court nomination hearing Wednesday of Amy Coney Barrett, who is Catholic.“I think you and I share something in common on this, an enthusiasm for religious freedom,” Lee said, adding that Latter-day Saints “have been no strangers to religious persecution even in this country.”He noted, for example, that in 1838, Missouri Gov. Lilburn Boggs issued an “exter