Justice Thomas Exposes Democrat Officials For Having No Basis To Investigate Pro-Life Pregnancy Center

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pressed a representative of the New Jersey Attorney General’s office to admit on Tuesday that the state had no basis to investigate a pro-life pregnancy center.

Sundeep Iyer, chief counsel to the state attorney general, conceded that they did not receive a single complaint about First Choice Women’s Resource Centers before issuing a subpoena for its donors, though they received complaints about other centers.

“So you had no basis to think that they were deceiving any of their contributors?” Thomas probed. Iyer said the center’s public website appeared misleading.

In First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, the justices are weighing whether a state court must enforce New Jersey’s subpoena before the pregnancy center can challenge it in federal court.

Democratic New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin issued a subpoena in November 2023 directing the pregnancy center to turn over years worth of internal documents, including information associated with nearly 5,000 donations, according to the center’s petition.

The center argues the subpoena chills their First Amendment rights and violates their right of association. New Jersey claims the subpoena is not self-executing and can’t yet be challenged in federal court.

A majority of justices seemed sympathetic to the pregnancy center’s challenge.

“An ordinary person, one of the funders of this organization or any similar organization, presented with this subpoena and then told ‘but don’t worry, it has to be stamped by a court,’ is not going to take that as very reassuring,” Justice Elena Kagan said.