Reported: SCOTUS Justices Prayed With Evangelical Group, Cited Their Amicus Brief in Case Overturning Roe

Rolling Stone Magazine is reporting that SCOTUS justices met and prayed with representatives of The Liberty Counsel, an SPLC designated anti-LGBT hate group that also dabbles in anti-choice politics and cited an Amicus brief filed by them in their ruling on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health which effectively ended abortion rights in many states.

“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. “We’re 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. Nienaber’s ministry’s umbrella organization, Liberty Counsel, frequently brings lawsuits before the Supreme Court. In fact, the conservative majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which ended nearly 50 years of federal abortion rights, cited an amicus brief authored by Liberty Counsel in its ruling.“

Here is video of of Peggy Nienaber bragging about the group’s influence outside the Supreme Court:

When contacted about Ms. Nienaber’s comments on the video, Liberty Counsel’s President Mat Staver…

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…strenuously denied that the in-person ministering to justices that Nienaber bragged about exists. “It’s entirely untrue,” Staver tells Rolling Stone. “There is just no way that has happened.” He adds: “She has prayer meetings for them, not with them.” Asked if he had an explanation for Nienaber’s direct comments to the contrary, Staver says, “I don’t.”

But RS dug deeper, contacting the Liberty Council founder Rob Schenck, who…

“… described how the organization forged ministry relationships with Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and the late Antonin Scalia, saying he would pray with them inside the high court. Nienaber was Schenk’s close associate in that era, and continued with the ministry after it came under the umbrella of Liberty Counsel.

Louis Virelli is a professor at Stetson University College of Law who wrote a book about Supreme Court recusals. He’s blunt in his assessment: “Praying with a group that filed an amicus brief with a court,” he says, “is a problem.”

I’ll say it’s a problem. I’m no Constitutional Lawyer and I won’t play one on PolitiZoom.

But Pro-Choice groups should absolutely hire a dozen or so and set them on at least Alito and Thomas to test how deep their loyalties go to this group, now that their association with it is being dragged into the light.

And what will be this nation’s tolerance for a Supreme Court that collaborates with an Evangelical Xian group, one designated a hate group, in making decisions that subjugate us all to Xian strictures?

ACLU, Anti-Defamation League, CARE… you all need to lawyer up!!!