Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With New Jersey Crisis Pregnancy Center Against Dems’ Bid to Get Donor List
By New York Post. The Supreme Court unanimously allowed a New Jersey-based crisis pregnancy center to fight a Garden State subpoena demanding access to its donor information.
The lower courts had dismissed First Choice Women’s Resource Centers’ lawsuit, buying New Jersey’s assertion that the plaintiffs could not sue to quash the subpoena due to the fact that the state needed a court order to enforce it.
The justices disagreed, with conservative Neil Gorsuch writing on behalf of his colleagues: “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. A government that chooses to make private donor information public may make the damage worse.”
The Supreme Court’s decision does not end the investigation by the New Jersey attorney general’s office into the crisis pregnancy center, but merely allows the lawsuit by First Choice to proceed. (Read more from “Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With New Jersey Crisis Pregnancy Center Against Dems’ Bid to Get Donor List” HERE)
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Supreme Court tosses Louisiana House map in major Voting Rights Act win for GOP ahead of midterms
By New York Post. The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map Wednesday, finding the Pelican State unconstitutionally added a second majority-black House district in a major decision that is likely to pave the way for Republicans to make major redistricting gains across southern states.
Louisiana had been forced by a federal judge to create a second majority-black district in 2024 to comply with Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which restricts states from diluting minority votes.
The Trump administration and state officials challenged the new map, arguing it was a racial gerrymander in violation of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees all citizens equal protection under the law.
The high court agreed, with all six conservative justices voting to get rid of the 2024 boundaries.
However, the majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito stopped short of finding Section 2 of the VRA unconstitutional, as many activists had feared. (Read more from “Supreme Court tosses Louisiana House map in major Voting Rights Act win for GOP ahead of midterms” HERE)
