Malicious prosecutions

SCOTUS blasts New Jersey attorney general for malicious subpoena

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/scotus_blasts_new_jersey_attorney_general_for_malicious_subpoena.html

By Susan Quinn

With the reversal of Roe, abortion legislation is now back in the hands of the states, but any success for the pro-life movement was unacceptable for New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin. Thus, he decided to target pro-life centers in New Jersey in a way that stood to intimidate the center’s donors, and possibly threaten its services:

Platkin, a Democrat appointed by Gov. Phil Murphy, began scrutinizing pregnancy counseling centers in July 2022 by launching a ‘strike force’ to promote abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision. Platkin said such facilities presented consumer fraud concerns because they misled donors and clients about the services they offered.

The allegations of “fraud” were entirely unfounded, but that didn’t stop Playkin from filing an investigative subpoena against a small nonprofit:

First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a nonprofit comprising five facilities across north and central New Jersey, has been wrapped up since 2023 in the dispute over an investigative subpoena issued by Attorney General Matthew Platkin, who alleges the nonprofit could be defrauding its donors. First Choice counters that the inquiry is baseless and a First Amendment threat because it has rattled donors, who have kept the centers afloat for four decades.

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‘I think it’s important to realize that there have been no complaints that have been cited by the attorney general against First Choice, not one,’ [First Choice Executive Director] Huber said. ‘So, when we received the subpoena, it was clearly a fishing expedition. There were no complaints by donors or clients.’

Give me the pro-lifer, I’ll find you the crime.