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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Elissa Graves regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to grant the government’s request to reinstate Food and Drug Administration rules protecting the health and safety of women seeking chemical abortion pills after a group of doctors sued to reverse agency policy and send abortion pills by mail without seeing patients in person: “Every woman should have all the information she needs to make the healthiest choice for everyone involved in a pregnancy. The FDA’s commonsense and long-standing rule ...

California spawned case by demanding confidential information, promising not to release it, then making it public

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Ryan Tucker, director of the ADF Center for Christian Ministries regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday night to immediately halt enforcement of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s discriminatory COVID-19 restrictions on churches and synagogues:“Last night’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that ‘even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten.’ The Constitution forbids government officials from treating religious Americans like second-class citizens. As the court made ...

U.S. files brief encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to take the ADF case Thomas More Law Center v. Becerra and a related case.

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom President and CEO Michael Farris regarding Monday’s Senate confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court: “On behalf of Alliance Defending Freedom, I want to congratulate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court and only the fifth female justice to serve on that bench. The American people count on our courts to apply the laws as written, not engage in judicial policymaking. In her confirmation process, Justice Barrett expressed a strong commitment to this ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom President and CEO Michael Farris regarding President Donald Trump’s nomination Saturday of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the current vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court: “Any nominee should be an originalist with a public record demonstrating deep commitment to protecting Americans’ constitutional freedoms, including religious freedom and free speech for all. Judge Barrett has an encouraging record of advocating for constitutional freedoms, and she deserves a fair and respectful confirmation process in the Senate ...

High court orders circuit court to reconsider its decision against March for Life in light of ruling upholding same HHS rules in other cases

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to take a case filed by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys on behalf of two former college students seeking to vindicate their constitutionally protected freedoms.

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday upholding U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rules which protect organizations with religious or moral objections to abortion, such as Little Sisters of the Poor, from being subject to a federal requirement that employer health plans cover abortifacients: “The government has no business forcing pro-life and religious organizations to provide drugs and devices that can destroy life. HHS designed ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday affirming the freedom of religious schools to determine who teaches their faith: “As the Supreme Court has made clear in the past and has now made clear again, the First Amendment bars the government from interfering with a religious group’s employment decisions regarding its ministers. The court’s decision today clears up disagreements in the lower courts about the right way to define ‘minister,’ ...