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ADF to US Supreme Court: Rein in unaccountable bureaucrats threatening Americans’ freedoms

Biden admin sued for eliminating coverage of fertility awareness family planning.

DC mayor sued for requiring masks at religious schools, but not bars, concerts, shopping centers.

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Thursday with the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo on behalf of Christian Employers Alliance urging the high court to take this case and rein in unaccountable bureaucrats. The brief argues that federal agency officials regularly exceed their executive authority by imposing mandates and spending tax dollars that harm the unborn, devalue religious freedom, and contradict biological distinctions based on sex, all without ...

Gov’t officials agree state’s 'adequate safeguards' requirement unconstitutional, will no longer exclude religious schools, reimburse wrongly denied plaintiff families’ tuition, pay attorneys’ fees

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman regarding a proposed rule released Monday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that reinterprets federal law to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, requiring doctors to perform harmful medical procedures that seek to alter a patient’s biological sex even if the procedure violates the doctor’s medical judgment or religious beliefs. The new proposed rule would also prohibit discrimination on the basis of “termination of pregnancy”—an action that could ...

ADF attorneys available for media interviews following hearing Tuesday

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed rule to remove conscience protections for medical professionals, undoing a Trump administration rule that protected doctors, nurses, and other health care workers to provide care in a manner consistent with their religious and ethical beliefs: “No American should be forced to violate their ethical and religious beliefs. Doctors, nurses, and other medical providers should enjoy this same constitutional protection, free to live and ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman regarding the decision of two families with children at a District of Columbia Catholic school to voluntarily withdraw their lawsuit, Dugan v. Bowser, Friday now that Mayor Muriel Bowser has dropped a mandate that required masks at religious schools but not at bars, concerts, strip clubs, and shopping centers: “There was no legitimate reason to say that the parents of children in private schools can’t make their own decisions regarding masks while people in nearly all other private entities can. For ...

ADF attorneys represent Catholic families in new lawsuit