Texas Monthly: How an Alleged Child Predator Remade the Nation's Second-Largest Faith Group in His Image

[tanyev]

1. Speaker Johnson kept some horrible company before he became a Trump enabler.

In 2007, as a tribute to his lifetime of religious and political accomplishments, Louisiana College (now known as Louisiana Christian University) announced plans to open the Judge Paul Pressler School of Law in downtown Shreveport, which would train the next generation of Christian lawyers. Its star-studded, CNP-affiliated board was a testament to Pressler’s influence. Among the board members: James Dobson, the longtime head of Focus on the Family; former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese; and Kelly Shackelford, whose Plano-based First Liberty Institute has been instrumental in lawsuits that have eroded the wall between church and state. The school’s founding dean, J. Michael Johnson, is now the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.