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Natalie D. Thompson serves as senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, where her practice in the regulatory litigation group focuses on federal administrative law’s impact on religious freedom and the sanctity of life. Before joining ADF, Thompson served as an assistant solicitor general in the office of the Texas attorney general. In that role, she represented the state and its officials on appeal in significant litigation matters, including defending constitutional challenges to Texas laws and claims against state officials. For example, Thompson defended numerous challenges to Texas ...

ADF attorneys applaud legislators for protecting consumers from discriminatory de-banking by nationally chartered banks with at least $100 billion in assets

WPATH styles itself as the authority on so-called ‘gender medicine.’ But leaked documents show that its standards of care are neither scientific nor ethical.

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Travis Barham regarding a motion ADF attorneys filed Friday with a federal court asking it to prohibit the University at Buffalo and its Student Association from continuing to block Young Americans for Freedom from accessing the more than $6,000 that belongs to it: “First, officials at the University at Buffalo violated Young Americans for Freedom’s constitutionally protected freedom by punishing the group for affiliating with off-campus allies. Then after we filed this case, officials adopted a new policy that ...

ADF lead counsel Erin Hawley to hold press conference following oral arguments in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine

Despite high praise for over 9 years of foster-care service, couple excluded for belief that boys are not girls and girls are not boys

The case at issue involves a woman who identifies as a lesbian suing the Missouri Department of Corrections for job discrimination.

YouTube corrected a false disclaimer it had placed on Alliance Defending Freedom’s videos about chemical abortion.

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Sharp, director of the ADF Center for Public Policy, regarding West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s signing Friday of SB 503, a bill to protect the First Amendment rights of student organizations at public universities: “Universities should encourage freedom of speech and religion, not shut it down. That includes safeguarding the ability of belief-based student organizations to associate with those who align with the organization’s mission and purpose. We wouldn’t require a Democrat club to select a registered ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Greg Chafuen regarding Gov. Brad Little’s signing Thursday of S 1352, a bill that strengthens existing law to ensure that counselors and therapists are not forced to counsel clients towards goals, outcomes, or behaviors that violate their conscience: “Everyone is served best when counselors and therapists can put their client’s best interest first. To do that, our laws should guarantee that counselors are not forced to provide counseling that conflicts with their sincerely held religious beliefs or that the ...