The Supreme Court is siding with a pro-life crisis pregnancy center after the state of New Jersey issued a subpoena demanding sensitive information such as a list of their donors.
The First Choice Women’s Resource Centers can now proceed to challenge the subpoena in federal court, effectively putting the state’s investigation on hold.
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Also from SCOTUS – NJ pro-life pregnancy can proceed with challenge against subpoena that asked for all kinds of records, including donor information. There had been no complaints against the center when the state started requesting the info. Court UNANIMOUSLY found a potential burden on 1st Am rights.
Also from SCOTUS – NJ pro-life pregnancy can proceed with challenge against subpoena that asked for all kinds of records, including donor information. There had been no complaints against the center when the state started requesting the info. Court UNANIMOUSLY found a potential…
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Here’s more from Politico:
The Supreme Court handed a win to anti-abortion advocates Friday, ruling that crisis pregnancy centers can go to federal court to try to block a state subpoena tied to a probe of the centers’ fundraising practices.
The unanimous ruling doesn’t immediately shut down the investigation by the New Jersey attorney general’s office, but it means the centers will soon get a chance to argue to a federal judge that the state’s demand for fundraising-related records going back a decade intrudes on the centers’ First Amendment rights.
“An official demand for private donor information is enough to discourage reasonable individuals from associating with a group. It is enough to discourage groups from expressing dissident views,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court in upholding the centers’ right to take the dispute to federal court now.
New Jersey officials say they are investigating discrepancies between what the centers promoting alternatives to abortion tell donors and what patients are told.
But the centers argue that turning over their donor lists and related materials to the state could expose donors to harassment. Some organizations supporting immigrants and the LGBTQ community sided with the anti-abortion groups, warning that a win for New Jersey could empower officials in conservative states to demand liberal organizations’ internal documents and donor lists.
You know it’s bad when the left is supporting a pro-life group against the state.