Last November, First Choice Women's Resource Centers was headed to the Supreme Court after the state of New Jersey targeted them as part of what First Choice Executive Director Aimee Huber called a "fishing expedition."
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin subpoenaed First Choice, demanding a decade's worth of documents, including statements on abortion pill reversal, any information it provided to clients and donors, documentation identifying personnel, copies of every First Choice advertisement and donor solicitation, and information about any outside organizations First Choice worked with.
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) sued on behalf of First Choice in December 2023, calling the subpoena "unlawful" and "unjust." In the lawsuit, ADF said Platkin "electively targeted First Choice Women’s Resource Centers based on its religious speech and pro-life views with a wide-ranging, unfounded, and burdensome subpoena that requires the organization to expend its limited resources to produce extensive documentation or face judicial sanctions."
That suit worked its way through lower courts, which all ruled in favor of Platkin. So ADF and First Choice appealed to the Supreme Court, asking it to acknowledge that First Choice had a right ot file a federal suit against Platkin.
Today, the Supreme Court ruled that First Choice does, in fact, have that right. And it did so unanimously.
The first opinion of the morning is in First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Davenport, a case about whether a nonprofit can challenge a subpoena demanding the identities of its financial supporters in federal court. The court unanimously says yes.https://t.co/yYktq3ZY8Q
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) April 29, 2026
You can read the entire ruling here.
BREAKING: SCOTUS unanimously rules that First Choice, a pregnancy center, has standing to challenge New Jersey’s lawfare against them in federal court. Opinion by Gorsuch pic.twitter.com/7Z2DXYXNUp
— Shawn Fleetwood (@ShawnFleetwood) April 29, 2026
Here's more:
The Court "held that those facing government action don't have to wait for the government to make good on its threats before suing to stop the First Amendment violation," according to Paul Taske of Net Choice, which filed a briefing on behalf of First Choice.
🚨 The Supreme Court just unanimously ruled for First Choice Women’s Resource Center! 👏
— NetChoice (@NetChoice) April 29, 2026
In an opinion by Justice Gorsuch, the Court "held that those facing government action don't have to wait for the government to make good on its threats before suing to stop the First… https://t.co/wvkw8I6oeu pic.twitter.com/BtTMiZ16OF
This is a major win for the pro-life movement and free speech.
🚨BREAKING: In a UNANIMOUS decision, this morning the #SCOTUS delivered a major victory for life and freedom of speech in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport.
— SBA Pro-Life America (@sbaprolife) April 29, 2026
Pregnancy centers have faced targeted harassment from government officials over the fact that they… pic.twitter.com/Hv8XGjWsVf
At the center of Platkin's subpoena was the argument that donors might think they're supporting abortion while donating to a pro-life pregnancy center. "We're skeptical of that theory because he's someone who has been overtly hostile to the mission of pregnancy centers," Lincoln Wilson, a lawyer with ADF said at the time. "He issued a consumer alert against pregnancy centers, warning New Jerseyans that they do not perform abortions, and he even asked Planned Parenthood to help him draft the alert."
Make no mistake: what New Jersey attempted to do was make public information about First Choice, its staff, and its donors. This would have opened the door to harassment and targeting by the radical pro-abortion Democrats who run the state.
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