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A right-wing evangelical activist was caught on tape bragging that she prayed with Supreme Court justices. The courts majority cited a legal brief that her group filed while overturning Roe v. Wade
At an evangelical victory party in front of the Supreme Court to celebrate the downfall of Roe v. Wade last week, a prominent Capitol Hill religious leader was caught on a hot mic making a bombshell claim: that she prays with sitting justices inside the high court. Were the only people who do that, Peggy Nienaber said.
This disclosure was a serious matter on its own terms, but it also suggested a major conflict of interest. Nienabers ministrys umbrella organization, Liberty Counsel, frequently brings lawsuits before the Supreme Court. In fact, the conservative majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health, which ended nearly 50 years of federal abortion rights, cited an amicus brief authored by Liberty Counsel in its ruling.
In other words: Sitting Supreme Court justices have prayed together with evangelical leaders whose bosses were bringing cases and arguments before the high court.
Nienaber is Liberty Counsels executive director of DC Ministry, as well as the vice president of Faith & Liberty, whose ministry offices sit directly behind the Supreme Court. She spoke to a livestreamer who goes by Connie IRL, seemingly unaware she was being recorded. You actually pray with the Supreme Court justices? the livestreamer asked. I do, Nienaber said. They will pray with us, those that like us to pray with them. She did not specify which justices prayed with her, but added with a chortle, Some of them dont! The livestreamer then asked if Nienaber ministered to the justices in their homes or at her office. Neither, she said. We actually go in there.
SOURCE: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/roe-supreme-court-justices-1378046/
MacKasey
(987 posts)Any justice who has prayed with this group should resign
They can not be objective.
They are making religious laws in violation of the first amendment
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,672 posts)and they wonder why people believe the court is becoming a farce.
The only conflict of interest they even know, is when the public is protesting against one of their decisions and they really don't care, cause these losers think they were chosen by god.
If there really is a god, he would not put these 6 losers anywhere near power.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)This is all ego driven pseudo-constitutional mumbo jumbo. The Roberts court has lost all credibility in a quest to put one religions god center stage in a nation that says it has no state religion.