If the Court’s conservatives were praying with the same anti-abortion activists whose amicus briefs they’d cited in an opinion overturning federal abortion protections, wouldn’t that constitute a fairly clear breach of ethics? One would think ...
Rob Schenck leads a prayer with anti-abortion advocates in front of the Supreme Court on April 18, 2007. Peggy Nienaber is pictured to his right. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images What happens when the Supreme Court engages in a conflict of interest? I am asking this sincerely because, as best as I can tell, the answer is absolutely nothing — and this troubles me.
The Dobbs decision represents a real win for anti-abortion activists and presumably for the Liberty Counsel in particular: It filed an amicus brief in support of Mississippi’s position. In a statement to the Cut, Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Mat Staver said that “the Rolling Stone article is false” and “sensational.” Formerly known as Faith and Action, the Faith & Liberty ministry has operated across the street from the Supreme Court’s chambers since the 1990s, Rolling Stone reports.
But Rolling Stone spoke with Faith & Liberty’s founder, Rob Schenck, who confirmed that he ministered to Samuel Alito , Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia in their chambers from the late ’90s until the mid-2010s. Schenck went on to renounce his anti-abortion activism and evangelical political work but described the justices as key targets for conversion.
“It should be obvious that since early 2020, the Supreme Court has been on lockdown due to COVID,” Staver said in his statement to the Cut. “There is no way anyone could have entered the Court to pray with the Justices or the staff over the past 2½ years.”
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