A member of his army:
Posted on 07/31/2015 7:09:34 PM PDT by markomalley
A federal judge late Friday granted a temporary restraining order against the release of recordings made at an annual meeting of abortion providers. The injunction is against the Center for Medical Progress, the group that has unveiled Planned Parenthood’s participation in the sale of organs harvested from aborted children.
Judge William H. Orrick, III, granted the injunction just hours after the order was requested by the National Abortion Federation.
Orrick was nominated to his position by hardline abortion supporter President Barack Obama. He was also a major donor to and bundler for President Obama’s presidential campaign. He raised at least $200,000 for Obama and donated $30,800 to committees supporting him, according to Public Citizen.
Even though the National Abortion Federation filed its claim only hours before, Orrick quickly decided in their favor that the abortionists they represent would, ironically, be “likely to suffer irreparable injury, absent an ex parte temporary restraining order, in the form of harassment, intimidation, violence, invasion of privacy, and injury to reputation, and the requested relief is in the public interest.”
Thus far the videos have featured born-alive humans discussing the killing of what abortion providers themselves call “babies,” the “crushing” of their bodies and harvesting of their organs for sale to for-profit companies.
From Orrick’s restraining order:
YOU ARE HEREBY ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE on Monday, August 3, 2015 at 4:00 p.m., before the Honorable William H. Orrick, at 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102, Courtroom 2, why you, your officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and any other persons who are in active concert or participation with you, should not be enjoined and restrained from engaging in, committing, or performing, directly and indirectly, any and all of the following acts:
(1) publishing or otherwise disclosing to any third party any video, audio, photographic, or other recordings taken, or any confidential information learned, at any NAF annual meetings;
(2) publishing or otherwise disclosing to any third party the dates or locations of any future NAF meetings;
(3) publishing or otherwise disclosing to any third party the names or addresses of any NAF members learned at any NAF annual meetings; and
(4) attempting to gain access to any future NAF meetings.
Pending hearing on the above Order to Show Cause you, your officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and any other persons who are in active concert or participation with you ARE HEREBY RESTRAINED AND ENJOINED from:
(1) publishing or otherwise disclosing to any third party any video, audio, photographic, or other recordings taken, or any confidential information learned, at any NAF annual meetings;
(2) publishing or otherwise disclosing to any third party the dates or locations of any future NAF meetings; and
(3) publishing or otherwise disclosing to any third party the names or addresses of any NAF members learned at any NAF annual meetings.
The suit filed by the National Abortion Federation attempted to restrain the journalism on the grounds that the Center for Medical Progress would be in violation of non-disclosure agreements its journalists had signed. The issue of whether you can restrain journalistic expression on such grounds is not cut and dry, according to Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment lawyer.
David Daleiden, the journalist behind the Center for Medical Progress videos, told CNN earlier today that the reason why Stem Express filed suit against release of a video of their meeting with him is because they admitted to receiving fully intact fetuses from abortion clinics. Daleiden said those conversations may have shown “prima facie evidence of born-alive infants.”
The Center for Medical Progress responded to the injunction:
The Center for Medical Progress follows all applicable laws in the course of our investigative journalism work. The National Abortion Federation is a criminal organization that has spent years conspiring with Planned Parenthood on how to violate federal laws on partial-birth abortion and fetal tissue sales. The Center for Medical Progress will contest any attempts to suppress our First Amendment rights to free speech or silence the freedom of the citizen press.
We’ll have to wait to find out just how grisly the National Abortion Federation’s discussion of organ harvesting was.
Like Hitler’s Germany,
this is a black robed protector of Mengele and Obama
rather than the 1st Amendment.
Tyranny.
Last I checked he didn’t have an army. F him!
How is it that judges are allowed to be so political???? How did this country sink so low that judges can manipulate the news cycle to keep the average American in the dark about the truth???
Broadcast Free America, set up offshore?
Totally ignore the bastard like obama ignores Fed Judge Hanen. To hell with his order!!! Give me the video . Ill showw the baby killing profiteers!!!
Nothing’s going to stop those videos. Those guys didn’t spend 2 and a half years in Hell to be stopped by some abortion loving judges.
A conservative version of Wikileaks?
We can't regard this as being a free country anymore.
Hey Judgie boy, you are hereby ordered to KISS MY ASS!!!
A member of his army:
Go Trump Go. They are driving million to Bravehart!! This is going to get very bloody, I fear. They are vastly out numbered and etc.
The judge should have recused himself, had he any honor (I know ... don’t expect anything like “honor” with an Obama appointee!) But CFP could certainly report judicial misconduct, given the connection. He’s very clearly not an objective person/judge.
Screw them. Upload it to Wikileaks and be “shocked” that somebody did so.
About time they got a taste of their own medicine.
‘I’m sorry, your honor, all of the aforementioned videos as well as the addresses, locations, etc, have already been released publicly. While, at the moment, such distribution of those things are small and minor, we fully expect that they will be even more widely distributed due to this chilling attack on the first amendment to protect a criminal enterprise.’
“How is it that judges are allowed to be so political???? How did this country sink so low that judges can manipulate the news cycle to keep the average American in the dark about the truth???”
My personal belief is that all laws, all systems of government, all approaches to limit abuse of power are eventually overcome, and must be refreshed. It’s a little like the battle between computer hackers and those who write software to protect the networks. People will always find a way around the safeguards, and they have found many ways to ‘game’ the American system of government.
Ignore it.
This is the leftist approach anyway and they get away with it.
If we ignore it and we are prosecuted, there is only one action.
And that one the liberals will NOT like.
But, Ayers (ya know, the cretin with a box top education doctorate) bombed folks and he’s doing fine.
Wow. The videos we haven’t seen must really be sick and incriminating.
Lousy judge. You can’t have prior restraint. Dumb Ass. Injunction is worthless and they know it!
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