A former antiabortion activist told a House committee about a decadeslong operation to gain personal access to conservative Supreme Court justices in a bid to bolster their will to overrule Roe v. Wade
WASHINGTON—A former antiabortion activist told a House committee on Thursday about a decadeslong operation to gain personal access to conservative Supreme Court justices in a bid to bolster their will to overrule Roe v. Wade.
The Rev. Robert Schenck, who has since broken with the conservative Christian movement, said he and fellow evangelicals believed that conservative justices “were routinely maligned and insulted in the public arena and needed shoring up.”
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