I went looking for this, but seems it hasn’t been picked up on yet.
Liberty Counsel, an evangelical “umbrella organization”, not only filed an amicus brief on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the case that the S.C. recently ruled on to tank Roe vs. Wade, but the organization also sent operatives to lead the Supreme Court justices in prayer.
Full Story at Yahoo! News
From the article:
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.
The founder of Liberty Counsel, Mat Staver, denies that this is actually happening, but has led current and former SC justices in prayer before, when the group was known as Faith and Action; Neinaber was his protégé in such efforts in the ‘90’s and continues to work with Liberty Counsel today.
Now, it seems to me that this is a HUGE issue. The Supreme Court justices, who are basically setting the rules for ALL Americans, regardless of faith, are getting spiritual guidance from not just one specific religion, or even one schism of that religion, but a specific religious think tank that is also submitting briefs on upcoming rulings AND filing cases of their own.
Apologies to all the devout among us, but this looks like “favored access” to me.