An organization that operates pro-life pregnancy centers in New Jersey asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving what the centers’ petition calls “an unlawful subpoena” by state Attorney General Matthew Platkin.
Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal firm known as ADF, filed a petition with the high court Feb. 26 on behalf of First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, asking it to force a lower court to hear the case.
A federal District Court judge dismissed the pregnancy resource organization’s case Feb. 15, citing “lack of jurisdiction.”
In December, Platkin, a Democrat, subpoenaed First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, which operates five pregnancy centers by that name in the state, over what he called potential violations of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
“With zero justification, the attorney general is unlawfully targeting…
