{"id":2597524,"date":"2026-05-01T07:13:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-confirms-first-amendment-protects-pregnancy-center-donors-from-nosey-abortion-states-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:16:18","slug":"scotus-confirms-first-amendment-protects-pregnancy-center-donors-from-nosey-abortion-states-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-confirms-first-amendment-protects-pregnancy-center-donors-from-nosey-abortion-states-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Confirms First Amendment Protects Pregnancy Center Donors From Nosey Abortion States"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fscotus-confirms-first-amendment-protects-pregnancy-center-donors-from-nosey-abortion-states-2%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=2597524&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--><p>As the 1950s, the Court has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/states-move-to-shore-up-religious-freedom-in-a-post-covid-world\/\" title=\"States Move to Shore Up Religious Freedom in a Post-COVID World\">repeatedly ruled<\/a> that official requests-such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-exclusive-system-glitch-also-uncovered-in-wisconsin-reversal-of-swapped-votes-removes-lead-from-joe-biden\/\" title=\"BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: System &#039;Glitch&#039; Also Uncovered In Wisconsin - Reversal of Swapped Votes Removes Lead from Joe Biden\">demands<\/a> from the Attorney General-place burdens on the exercise of First Amendment rights, a point Justice Gorsuch emphasized in his remarks.This refers to the Supreme Court\u2019s longstanding line of cases holding that **official requests or demands backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-suing-texas-ag-over-probe-into-trump-ban-company-cites-first-amendment-rights\/\" title=\"Twitter Suing Texas AG Over Probe Into Trump Ban, Company Cites \u2018First Amendment Rights\u2019\">government authority<\/a> can themselves burden First Amendment activity**-even without criminal prosecution-so the government must have an adequate justification.<\/p>\n<p>A key example is ***NAACP v. Alabama* (1958)**, where the Court held that the state\u2019s demand that the NAACP disclose member lists imposed a ample burden on association and protected speech. More broadly, the Court has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >treated compelled disclosures\/requirements<\/a> (including those issued through official channels) as implicating First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>If you want, I can identify the most directly matching case(s) for the specific sentence you\u2019re working from.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Since the 1950s, this Court has confronted one official demand after another like the Attorney General\u2019s. Over and again, we have held those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-confirms-first-amendment-protects-pregnancy-center-donors-from-nosey-abortion-states\/\" title=\"SCOTUS: 1A Protects Pro-Life Center Donors From Nosey Abortion States\">demands burden<\/a> the exercise of First Amendment rights,&#8217; wrote Justice Gorsuch.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the 1950s, the Court has repeatedly held such demands burden First Amendment rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2597525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/First-Choice-1200x675.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43743,78928,33332,68033,6994],"class_list":["post-2597524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abortion-law","tag-donor-protections","tag-first-amendment","tag-pregnancy-centers","tag-scotus"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/First-Choice-1200x675.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597524","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597528,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597524\/revisions\/2597528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2597525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}