What comes next at Supreme Court

These days, our Supreme Court is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. The signs are that they’re about to disestablish the federal right to abortion in America. Whether you‘re cheering or grieving, it’s no coincidence.

Trump named three of them — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — while advertising the fact that he was nominating them precisely because they would overturn Roe.

At their confirmation hearings, these people are called upon to make noises that suggest their minds are open, they respect judicial precedent, they haven’t decided anything about abortion. In some cases, this involved just plain lying.

If you’re Coney Barrett, and your career has been distinguished by your strident antiabortion views, it can’t have been fun to sit there and talk to a bunch of nosy senators about how you would treat this issue. The truth was and is that she’ll vote to overturn Roe as soon as she gets a chance to, which will be this term. If she had been honest in the confirmation hearings, she would not have been confirmed. (A solid majority of Americans favor the right to choose.) But lying is a sin ... what to do?

This will not have been hard for the likes of Coney Barrett. Sure, she lied in the confirmation hearings. But then again, most of the people she lied to aren’t even of the faith, so does it even count?

In any event, by lying to some senators she gained the ability to stop what is, to people of her stripe of Roman Catholicism, an ongoing holocaust. She merely lied in order to gain a position from which she can stop what she and her religion consider to be mass murder.

She probably sleeps like a baby. Or an ovum that got fertilized two seconds ago; same thing, right?

Eric Kuhn Middletown