Religion and Politics

Former Anti-Abortion Leader Alleges Another Supreme Court Breach

Jodi Kantor and Jo Becker of The New York Times report, “As the Supreme Court investigates the extraordinary leak this spring of a draft opinion of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade, a former anti-abortion leader has come forward claiming that another breach occurred in a 2014 landmark case involving contraception and religious rights.” The former leader, the Rev. Rob Schenck, said that he was told the result of the landmark Hobby Lobby case in advance. Schenck recruited couples who shared his values to get close to the conservative justices on the Court. He claims that one of these couples learned about the decision from the Alitos and passed that information along to Schenck. Alito denied the allegation.

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