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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">peggy Nienaber may provide her own downfall thanks to hubris. <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/roe-supreme-court-justices-1378046/" target="blank"><em>Rolling Stone</em> revealed</a> on Wednesday that the Christian fascist, who serves as vice president of the nonprofit anti-abortion group <a href="https://faithandlibertydc.org/" target="blank">Faith & Liberty</a> and serves as hate group <span><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/liberty-counsel" target="_blank">Liberty Counsel</a>’s
executive director of D.C. Ministry, was caught bragging about praying
with Supreme Court justices. While appearing on a livestream she didn’t
realize was being recorded, Nienaber confirmed that she prays with some
of the justices inside the Supreme Court itself. “They will pray with
us, those that like us to pray with them,” Nienaber said, adding with a
laugh that, “Some of them don’t!” This claim was backed up by the
founder of the ministry that ultimately got absorbed into Liberty
Counsel. Rob Schenck, who used to work alongside Nienaber, has since
renounced his actions. Yet from the late 1990s onward, he prayed
with Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia in the Supreme
Court itself.</span></font>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span>The prayers never directly mentioned cases, but clearly worked
their manipulative magic, though Schenck seems shocked by this. “I was
sure, while we were doing it, it would be a positive contribution to our
public life,” Schenck told Rolling Stone. “It didn’t have the effect I thought it would. In some ways, it set the stage for the reversal of<span> </span></span>Roe,<span><span> </span>which I now think of as a social catastrophe.”<b> </b></span><b>Rolling Stone also
points out the conflict of interest in this practice that Nienaber has
continued, as her group, Liberty Counsel, “frequently brings lawsuits
before the Supreme Court.” An <a href="https://lc.org/PDFs/Attachments2PRsLAs/07262119-1392DobbsvJackson_AmiciBriefInSupportofPetitioners.pdf" target="blank">amicus brief</a> from the group was even cited in the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="blank">majority opinion</a> for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade.</b></font></p><div data-campaign-id="9793" data-action="letter" data-slug="sign-and-send-the-petition-expand-the-supreme-court-pass-the-judiciary-act-of-2021-2" data-src="https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v4/letter/sign-and-send-the-petition-expand-the-supreme-court-pass-the-judiciary-act-of-2021-2?format=js&source=story_2108801&can_widget_id=can-letter-area-sign-and-send-the-petition-expand-the-supreme-court-pass-the-judiciary-act-of-2021-2-499413" data-href="/campaigns/letter/sign-and-send-the-petition-expand-the-supreme-court-pass-the-judiciary-act-of-2021-2" class="dk-action-embed dk-editor-embed embed-rendered"><div id="can-letter-area-sign-and-send-the-petition-expand-the-supreme-court-pass-the-judiciary-act-of-2021-2-499413" class="can-letter-area-sign-and-send-the-petition-expand-the-supreme-court-pass-the-judiciary-act-of-2021-2" style="width: 100%"><div class="can_embed v4 letter_delivery letter"><div id="can_embed_form"><div id="can_embed_form_inner">
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Liberty Counsel, a 501 tax-exempt organization allegedly dedicated to
litigating cases regarding religious freedom and the so-called sanctity
of life, has already been cited by the Southern Poverty Law Center as
an extremist group pushing an anti-LGBTQ agenda</b>. It’s <a href="https://lc.org/" target="_blank">clear from its website</a>
that abortion is the cause du jour for the organization, which pushes
outlandish talking points that reproductive rights somehow, say,
constitute eugenics. And Liberty Counsel’s influence isn’t just a
Supreme Court problem, either. Nie<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">naber’s influence in politics cannot
be understated: Per Rolling Stone, she’s been seen with
Republicans like Sen. Lindsay Graham and former vice president Mike
Pence, along with—of course—justices like Brett Kavanaugh and <b>Clarence
Thomas.</b></span></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bad news, as Rolling Stone points out, is that there are
few ways to address the Supreme Court’s outright bias and impartiality.
The Constitution offers minimal guidance on matters like these and a <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/455" target="_blank">federal statute</a>
on justice recusal doesn’t offer much, either. The good news? We don’t
have to let the court stand as it currently does. What are y’all doing
to get more involved as we look toward the midterms? I’m looking forward
to hearing y'all’s responses.</font></p></div><div align="left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div></div>