{"id":1027845,"date":"2021-11-18T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027845"},"modified":"2021-11-18T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:14:31","slug":"new-york-ag-quits-spy-campaign-against-pro-life-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-ag-quits-spy-campaign-against-pro-life-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"New York AG Quits Spy Campaign Against Pro-Life Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-ag-quits-spy-campaign-against-pro-life-activists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027845&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.949579831933\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">AGs spent taxpayer money on hidden cams, undercover officers <\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"735\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Letitia-James-2.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Letitia-James-2.jpeg 735w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Letitia-James-2-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Letitia-James-2-702x491.jpeg 702w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tNew York attorney general Letitia James (D.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 November 18, 2021 2:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"86.615282831624\">\n<p>New York&#8217;s attorney general on Wednesday dropped a case against pro-life activists after four years of legal battles and clandestine surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Letitia James (D.) abandoned the suit, which alleged that Brooklyn pastor Kenneth Griepp and members of the Church @ the Rock harassed women who entered an abortion clinic. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in August ruled unanimously to uphold a district court ruling against the state&#8217;s case. James chose to dismiss the case rather than petition the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes amid a year of legal wins for religious liberty advocates. The Supreme Court in November ordered a lower court to reconsider its decision to uphold a New York mandate that forced religious organizations to cover abortion in their insurance plans. The ruling followed a June Supreme Court decision in favor of a Catholic adoption agency in Philadelphia that does not work with same-sex couples. And the Court in April struck down pandemic restrictions on religious services enforced by then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D.).<\/p>\n<p>Griepp says he is glad that after years of state pressure his church will be able to continue their efforts without interference. &#8220;The least among us\u2014these unborn children\u2014must have a voice,&#8221; he told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Free Beacon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Disgraced former New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman (D.) in 2016 began surveilling protesters outside the Choices Women&#8217;s Medical Center in Queens. Private investigators would pose as abortion clinic clients and pass through protesters while wearing hidden cameras. A district judge found the resulting evidence unconvincing and said testimonies from clinic escorts were exaggerated and omitted relevant context.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Crampton, senior counsel for the Thomas More Society, the nonprofit religious liberty firm that represented Griepp, said he hopes these series of decisions will send a message to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tremendous waste of taxpayer finances and resources to conduct not a neutral, objective prosecution of the law, but a persecution of one particular disfavored group, namely Christians who dare to stand up for the rights of the unborn on public sidewalks,&#8221; Crampton told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Merle Hoffman, the CEO of Choices Women&#8217;s Medical Center clinic and a leading pro-choice activist, told the <em>Free Beacon <\/em>that James&#8217;s decision to drop the case is the latest defeat for her cause at the hands of pro-life &#8220;stormtroopers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is just one battle in an extremely long war,&#8221; Hoffman said.&nbsp;&#8220;Abortion will be done away with in a large swath of the country. Even if <em>Roe<\/em> stands, it will be on crutches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James is pursuing a similar lawsuit against pro-life organizers who protested at Planned Parenthood Empire State, which endorsed her campaign. The <a href=\"https:\/\/dockets.justia.com\/docket\/new-york\/nysdce\/1:2021cv01159\/553931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case<\/a> is pending in a federal district court.<\/p>\n<p>The New York attorney general&#8217;s office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts AGs spent taxpayer money on hidden cams, undercover officers   New York attorney general Letitia James (D.) \/ Getty Images  Patrick Hauf &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}