Pastor Says He Took Advantage of US Supreme Court’s Lack of Ethics to Lobby Against Abortion
News 18A former activist from the US religious right told Congress Thursday how he took advantage of the US Supreme Court’s lack of a code of ethics to conduct an intense lobbying campaign aimed at its conservative judges. Pastor Robert Schenck, 64, detailed his efforts — which included prayers, dinners and trips — during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee focused on the ethics rules, or lack thereof, for Supreme Court justices. Pastor Schenck said he took advantage of this vacuum to run a 20-year influence campaign called “Operation Higher Court.” The stealth campaign “involved my recruitment of wealthy donors, as stealth missionaries, who befriended justices that shared our conservative social and religious sensibilities,” Schenk said, mentioning conservative Justices Samuel Alito and the late Antonin Scalia by name. He insisted that he discovered late in life that politics corrupts religion, and now wanted to tell “the truth.” Alito was the author of the June ruling that overturned the US nationwide right to abortion.
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