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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Supreme Court justices prayed with influential conservative Christian legal group, member claims

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In the moments after the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision to end the constitutional right to an aborrtion, the director of a conservative Christian ministry connected to an influential right-wing legal group in Washington DC claimed that she prayed with the justices who struck down Roe v Wade.

A report from Rolling Stone reveals that a YouTube stream from outside the Supreme Court on 24 June captured the remarks made by Peggy Nienaber, the vice president of Faith & Liberty, an arm of the powerful legal group Liberty Counsel, which describes the organization as “Christian outreach to top-level government officials in Washington DC”.

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