Prior to Reverend Rob Schenck’s discrediting appearance at the House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, the pro-choice activist was held up as an authority on the pro-life movement by the mainstream media.

During the hearing titled "Undue Influence: Operation Higher Court and Politicking at SCOTUS," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, questioned Schenck on a section in his book that claimed his brother "made history" by having Chief Justice William Rehnquist refer to him as "Reverend Paul Schenck" in a case. However, Jordan proved the activist wrong by providing an audio recording of the case at the time.

"One thing I've learned: people who mislead folks on small things mislead them on big things," Jordan said.

Although Schenck’s credibility has now been called into question, he was heavily promoted as an authority figure in the mainstream media to attack the pro-life movement as he had once been a part of it.

Schenck wrote a New York Times op-ed in 2019 that condemned the movement to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying, "I’ve come to believe that overturning Roe would not be ‘pro-life’; rather, it would be destructive of life."

Back in July, Rolling Stone magazine politics reporter Kara Vought cited Schenck as a counterpoint to Peggy Nienaber, vice president at Faith & Liberty, who admitted that she prayed with Supreme Court justices in a secretly record video. Schenck, who originally founded the ministry group Faith and Action in the 1990s before renouncing it in 2018, condemned...

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