On the eve of Friday’s March for Life, President Donald Trump added 23 abortion sit-in convicts to his pardon list, complementing the legislative efforts of congressional Republicans and legal defense for pro-life pregnancy centers.
A New Jersey pregnancy center network allegedly harassed by Democratic Attorney General Matthew Platkin, a Planned Parenthood ally who consulted the abortion giant on the wording for his “consumer alert” against pro-life centers, asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to let it sue him in federal court before Platkin’s state-level proceedings against it conclude.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals worsened a split among the federal appeals courts last month by ruling that First Choice Women’s Resource Centers’ constitutional claims were not “ripe” because it can assert those claims in state court and its “current affidavits do not yet show enough of an injury,” joining the 5th Circuit’s precedent and rejecting the 9th Circuit’s.
“This case may be the unicorn that allows this Court to review an important issue that would otherwise escape review” because it involves “the rare situation where the question presented has survived parallel state proceedings,” its lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom wrote.
The so-called preclusion trap prevents “the target of a state investigatory demand,” such as Platkin’s subpoena for “years of sensitive internal information” from First Choice including donor identities behind “nearly 5,000 contributions,” from seeking federal recourse for “deprivations of rights” at the hands of state officials, the petition says. […]
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