Supreme Court allows New Jersey crisis pregnancy centers to challenge subpoena in federal court

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that First Choice Women's Resource Centers, a faith-based pregnancy center in New Jersey, has established sufficient First Amendment injury to proceed with its challenge to a subpoena from the state's attorney general. The subpoena, issued in 2023 as part of an investigation into whether the centers misled donors or patients, demanded donor lists and other records. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the state's arguments failed to overcome decades of precedent protecting First Amendment rights against such investigatory demands.