I just finished posting about the extremely questionable prosecution, jailing
and exorbitant bail against Sandra Merritt this morning. Then, I go
to my email inbox. Lo and behold! I found an email from Operation Rescue reporting the Ninth Circuit of Appeals
(located on the Left coast) ruled that the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) undercover obtained
videos and recording cannot be turned over to the police EVEN if criminal conduct
is reveal!!!!!!
“A three-member panel of the
liberally activist Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that additional footage
obtained through the CMP's undercover investigations - even those recordings that contain evidence of
criminal conduct committed by Planned Parenthood and National Abortion
Federation officials - cannot be released to law enforcement personnel. A
requested review by the full Ninth Circuit was denied.”
What is our nation coming to when even the Judicial Branch
condones lawlessness in the name of protecting the Leftist transformative
agenda that has hammered into American thought?
Here is the Operation Rescue article that was linked in my
email alert.
JRH 5/9/17
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Pro-Life Journalists Seek Appeal to the U.S. Supreme
Court in Free Speech, Baby Parts Case
By DeAnn Flanagan
May 8, 2017
San Francisco, CA – The Center for Medical Progress and its
founding members, including Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, are
seeking to appeal a draconian Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling to the U.S.
Supreme Court in order to protect the First Amendment Rights of journalists to
report to law enforcement evidence of crimes contained in undercover
recordings.
A three-member panel of the liberally activist Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled that additional footage obtained through the CMP’s
undercover investigations – even those recordings that contain evidence of
criminal conduct committed by Planned Parenthood and National Abortion
Federation officials – cannot be released to law enforcement personnel. A
requested review by the full Ninth Circuit was denied.
The ruling is related to a federal lawsuit, National
Abortion Federation v. CMP, et al, that was filed in 2015 after the CMP
released several videos showing Planned Parenthood executives haggling over top
dollar to illegally sell aborted baby organs and tissue. The NAF sought to
block the further release of possibly incriminating videos.
Attorneys for the American Center for Law and Justice are
representing Newman in that case.
A joint motion filed May 5, 2017, is seeking a stay of the
Ninth Circuit’s mandate pending the filing of a certiorari petition with the
U.S. Supreme Court.
The motion states that the court wrongly upheld a “prior
restraint” on CMP’s First Amendment speech, which had captured great public
interest. The undercover videos were also the subject of investigations by House and Senate panels
that later referred Planned Parenthood organizations to the U.S. Department of
Justice and state Attorneys General for further criminal investigation and
prosecution.
“Prior restraints are ‘the most serious and least tolerable
infringement of First Amendment Rights,’” stated the motion to stay.
So radical was the Ninth Circuit’s ruling that the pro-life
leaders’ defense attorneys argued:
Outside the context of trade
secrets and classified information, no federal court – other
than now this Court – has upheld an order suppressing information of high
public interest based simply on the agreement of the parties to do so. Other
federal courts have declined to put the weight of their contempt power behind
the enforcement of private agreements to defeat the public’s right to know.
“In a case of critical importance to free speech rights, the
Ninth Circuit has wrongly barred pro-life citizen journalists from reporting
crimes and submitting evidence to law enforcement. Instead, the Court has opted
to protect the ability of the NAF and Planned Parenthood to conceal possible
criminal activity,” said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Vice President, Operation
Rescue. “The rogue Ninth Circuit has showed their penchant for liberal,
pro-abortion judicial activism once again, and we look forward to the U.S.
Supreme Court once again overturning one of their grossly unconstitutional
decisions.”
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Who We Are
Operation Rescue® is one of
the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation. Operation
Rescue® recently made headlines when it bought and closed an abortion clinic in
Wichita, Kansas and has become perhaps the most visible voice of the pro-life
activist movement in America. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the
abortion issue, taking direct action to restore legal personhood to the
pre-born and stop abortion in obedience to biblical mandates.
Troy Newman, President
Adopted at birth and raised
in San Diego, Troy Newman has more than 27 years of experience and leadership
in business and pro-life ministry with great success growing Christian
organizations. Troy is an accomplished strategist with remarkable insight.
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