And of course, there's yet another reason: vanity. The expected number of attendees is under a thousand. Trump was never going to be there of course, but Greene and Cawthorn probably mutually decided it wasn't worth their time for attendance smaller than Oribos at server reset.
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SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas talked to students at Notre Dame, so yeah, there were some religious overtones.
And even
he said the Texas law was on shaky ground.
However, he also seemed upset about the political future of the Supreme Court, that it should stay nonpartisan. Which is what I would say, if the last six years were all about stuffing SCOTUS with my friends, and I was worried someone was going to fix that. Maybe Thomas is telling the truth, maybe not, but if he's worried about SCOTUS being weaponized, he knows where to look -- his own party.