Yeah, Nakedly Corrupt

It appears that some Supreme Court Justices held a prayer session with an anti-abortion activist.

When I suggest that the Biden administration and members of the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) accuse the Supreme Court of corruption, I am not just suggesting that they do this because it is politically expedient, I am suggesting that they do so because it is true:

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.  

In other words: Sitting Supreme Court justices have prayed together with evangelical leaders whose bosses were bringing cases and arguments before the high court.

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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.”

Gee, ya think? 

I would note there that this is not a run of the mill religious observance.

There are no Evangelicals on the court.  In fact, there is at the most, just 1 Protestant on the court.  (Gorsuch's religious affiliation is unclear)

Simply put, Catholics and Protestants in general, and Catholics and Evangelical Christians, do not routinely pray with each other.

This was a cover for political machinations behind the scenes.