The Supreme Court has a majority of conservative Catholic justices selected by a man whose mission is to impose his version of Catholic doctrine on the American people. That may sound extreme, but it happens to be true—and it is undermining the credibility upon which the court’s role in our democracy depends.

In Dobbs v.  Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the dissenting justices attacked not only the majority’s reasoning but its motives, writing: “The majority has overruled Roe and Casey for one and only one reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them.” That is strong language, even for a dissent, but there are persuasive reasons to believe it is true.