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Supreme Court Refuses to Help Pro-Life Advocate Forced to Pay Planned Parenthood $18 Million
Life News ^ | October 3, 2023 | Anne Reed

Posted on 10/03/2023 4:10:04 PM PDT by Morgana

In an act of injustice and failure to protect independent citizen journalism, the United States Supreme Court refused to provide certiorari in several related appeals filed by pro-life activists, including Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. This decision ends the defendants’ efforts to obtain justice after Planned Parenthood’s use of lawfare resulted in a judgment and fees totaling more than $18 million.

The activists were wrongly convicted in a San Francisco Federal Court under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) after Planned Parenthood sued them for the 2015 release of a series of undercover videos detailing the Abortion Cartel’s secret participation in what appeared to be illegal profit-taking from the trafficking of tissue and organs harvested from the bodies of babies aborted at Planned Parenthood facilities.

Troy Newman, the lead defendant in Newman vs. Planned Parenthood, said, “This injustice is years in the making. Planned Parenthood has gamed the system to cover up their crimes and punish those of us who came forward to expose the heinous nature of what really happens behind the closed doors of America’s Abortion Cartel. However, in the end, Planned Parenthood has lost, because no matter what is levied against me, I will never stop speaking the truth to the American people about the barbarity of abortion and corruption that exists within the abortion industry, the current government, and the legal system that aids, abets, and protects the vicious shedding of innocent blood.”

The undercover video series showed clear evidence of Planned Parenthood officials admitting they harvested and sold aborted baby remains. The videos also contained eyewitness claims that many babies survived abortions, only to have their organs cut from their bodies as they struggled for life. This was done for the purpose of supplying the freshest samples, which could obtain the highest price from middle-man procurement companies and so-called “research” labs world-wide.

However, despite the evidence and two Congressional investigations that both resulted in Planned Parenthood’s criminal referrals to the U.S. Department of Justice, the corrupt FBI refused to investigate, and the DOJ declined to prosecute.

During Newman’s trial, a federal judge’s refusal to allow key evidence unduly influenced the trial’s outcome. An “unpublished” decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals essentially guaranteed that the Supreme Court would not take the case.

Yesterday’s decision permanently saddles Newman and the other defendants with a judgment of millions of dollars now owed to Planned Parenthood. RICO does not allow the defendants to discharge the judgment in bankruptcy, so they will be forever in debt, unable to own any personal property.

“In the end, the real losers are the women and babies who have been criminally exploited by the Abortion Cartel, the First Amendment that is meant to provide protections to journalistic free speech, and the American people who have been lied to and prevented from hearing a narrative that is critical of the pro-abortion ideology and actions supported by corrupt forces within our government,” said Newman.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife
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Well there you have it
1 posted on 10/03/2023 4:10:04 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

The kind of money that could buy Mar-a-lago


2 posted on 10/03/2023 4:12:31 PM PDT by C210N (We're at war: Make them have to cheat so much it becomes comical, then ridicule them into oblivion.)
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To: Morgana

This is the entire point of lawfare, destroy your enemy with the process.

We should learn it.


3 posted on 10/03/2023 4:13:55 PM PDT by fwdude (.)
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To: Morgana

“The activists were wrongly convicted in a San Francisco Federal Court under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)”

And yet NOTHING regarding Black Lives Matter.


4 posted on 10/03/2023 4:14:07 PM PDT by BobL (I own an F150 so that I can tow my boat all day Saturday and look Manly)
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To: Morgana

Makes me sick.


5 posted on 10/03/2023 4:14:25 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Morgana

The fools.

Democrats are the enemy. They committed massive vote fraud and SCOTUS refused to hear it. They emboldened violent activists to attack sitting justices (Kavanaugh) and threatened to pack the supreme court.

Our country is fighting for its life and SCOTUS is passively watching it happen.


6 posted on 10/03/2023 4:19:59 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: KittyKares; All

You all can’t imagine how I feel right now.

I’m like if Jesus don’t come soon I’m going to get in the car and go get him!!


7 posted on 10/03/2023 4:20:57 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

The fools.

Democrats are the enemy.


The SC doesn’t agree with you. They think MAGA is the enemy.


8 posted on 10/03/2023 4:23:50 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Morgana

We need our Own Homeland !


9 posted on 10/03/2023 4:24:13 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: fwdude

Given that 95% of the nation’s lawyers...and judges...are Rats it wouldn’t work for us.


10 posted on 10/03/2023 4:25:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: Morgana

Sometimes you wonder if hell can burn hot enough for some of these individuals..


11 posted on 10/03/2023 4:33:27 PM PDT by Lake Living
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To: Morgana

Totally evil people protected by a totally evil government.


12 posted on 10/03/2023 4:35:03 PM PDT by FrozenAssets (You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps)
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To: Morgana

Hell hath no fury than any stoppage of the blood of innocents disrupted.

We live in a fallen and evil world. I await the day for a monarCHIRST to set things right and let the children laugh in the sunshine again.


13 posted on 10/03/2023 4:35:18 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Morgana

When will republicans play smart politics and avoid giving democrats chance to exploit the abortion issue?


14 posted on 10/03/2023 4:35:39 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like Desantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed his wealth to serve people. GO TRUMP)
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To: C210N

Not even close.

Property tax valuations and land worth are two totally separate things. The goofy judge is relying on property tax valuations.

Mara Lago is currently structured as a private club and the land is zoned for agricultural (aside from community association common area, it is one of the lowest valuations available for property tax purposes).

Trump waived developer rights.

1. If he closed down the club and requested a rezoning back to residential lots, the taxing authority would slap the highest possible valuation on it. It would sell for $1B to the next developer. Two acre undeveloped lots sell for $200M in Palm Beach. Mara Lago is over 17 acres.

2. If he sold the land and the club (which brings in $25M annually in revenue) as is, he could still bring in about the same.

To give you a real life example, an undeveloped residential lot in an exclusive, gated HOA here in DFW was appraised by Tarrant County for $355K. A similarly sized lot, designated as “common area” in the same HOA is valued at $1 for tax purposes.

Should the HOA reclassify it as a residential lot, it would once again be appraised for $355K.

What is that lot actually worth? $355K.


15 posted on 10/03/2023 4:38:33 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: C210N

LOL...

Traitor Roberts fault.

He’s an anti-American commie.


16 posted on 10/03/2023 4:41:19 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Morgana

17 posted on 10/03/2023 4:42:30 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Morgana

That is funny.
Very sad that a, supposedly, Conservative leaning SCOTUS is willing to allow this evil injustice to stand.


18 posted on 10/03/2023 4:55:43 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

It’s a shame but they have a full docket. Huge cases coming up.

In fact, the Court accepts 100-150 of the more than 7,000 cases that it is asked to review each year. Typically, the Court hears cases that have been decided in either an appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals or the highest Court in a given state (if the state court decided a Constitutional issue).


19 posted on 10/03/2023 5:05:30 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Morgana

this is all going to boomerang on the left, and more and more on the right start suing the left over anything and everything.


20 posted on 10/03/2023 5:26:27 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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