Posted on 08/24/2024 6:23:26 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
he First Amendment does not allow the United States to adopt "Oceania's Ministry of Truth."
That line from George Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" opens U.S. District Judge John Sinatra's order Thursday imposing a preliminary injunction on New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is threatening pro-life pregnancy centers for telling women about so-called abortion pill reversal, as their lawsuit proceeds.
Her office may not enforce state consumer fraud laws against the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), Gianna's House and Options Care Center, which sued in May, for referring to APR, calling it safe and effective or directing people to the APR Hotline and website in their ads, social media and promotional materials. The injunction is limited to the plaintiffs, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom.
“Women in New York have literally saved their babies from an in-progress chemical drug abortion because they had access to information through their local pregnancy centers" about the protocol, ADF senior counsel Caleb Dalton said.
ADF told Just the News this was the "first substantial ruling" in the recent spate of Democratic Attorneys General threatening pregnancy centers and chilling their speech, and said it provides a template to other courts hearing similar challenges.
One of the more notable conclusions by Sinatra, nominated by President Trump: He'd issue the injunction even if James were correct that the centers were practicing "commercial speech," a category that receives less constitutional protection.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
She is trying to make us into a clone of Canada where it is illegal to, or almost illegal to, post “misinformation” about things like abortion
And RFKjr. says the Demoncrats are are totalitarian . . .(AKA Nazis)
A good news article about freedom of speech but horribly written.
Sanctions for costs and attorneys fees should be awarded against AGs using lawfare and violating the US Constitution, personally against the state attorneys involved with the balance coming out of appropriated funds to the state offices pushing this. Somehow judges violating civil liberties should be liable as well.
‘Ministry of Truth’ from someone who knows nothing about Truth
BOOM!!! Talk about a smack down.
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