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Anti-Abortion Activist Says She Prayed with Sitting Supreme Court Justices

HeadlineJul 07, 2022

Rolling Stone magazine reports a prominent Capitol Hill evangelical leader was caught on a hot mic boasting that she has prayed with sitting Supreme Court justices. The disclosure by anti-abortion activist Peggy Nienaber suggests a major conflict of interest with the court: Her ministry’s umbrella organization, Liberty Counsel, filed an amicus brief in the landmark case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which overturned 50 years of Supreme Court precedent on abortion rights.

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