Supreme Court Sides With Anti-Abortion Clinic in Fight Over Donor Records [View all]
Source: NY Times
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed that a New Jersey anti-abortion clinic should be able to challenge a subpoena issued by state officials seeking donor information.
In a unanimous decision written by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, the justices cleared the way for First Choice Women’s Resource Centers to bring a First Amendment challenge in federal court as it tries to fight the subpoena.
The ruling is a victory for the group, which alleged it had been targeted by state investigators because it sought to discourage women from having abortions. The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General has said the subpoena was part of an investigation into whether the group had misled potential clients and donors into thinking it offered abortions.
Justice Gorsuch wrote that “since the 1950s, this court has confronted one official demand after another like the attorney general’s” and “over and again, we have held those demands burden the exercise of First Amendment rights.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/politics/supreme-court-abortion-subpoena.html
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