John Bickley

Were there any particularly surprising moments to you in the arguments, anything you weren't anticipating?

So I would think that if there weren't complaints in advance, these kinds of severe actions by an attorney general would be overthrown.

Is there a precedent that would apply to these kinds of sort of unprompted subpoenas like New Jersey issued here?

OK, so the decision could have sort of an ancillary protection by highlighting this issue of harassment based on viewpoint discrimination.

Is that what you're arguing?

Now, your team at ADF has been obviously defending a lot of clients that have experienced some sort of persecution for being Christians, for being pro-life.

Is this part of a larger pattern in terms of AGs, people in official positions of power in states, figuring out ways to target specifically pro-lifers?

So Planned Parenthood has come up a couple of times in this discussion.

I wanted to ask you about them.

They were consulted by the AG to come up with this, as we've characterized it, a sort of harassment policy.

But we've also seen headlines that Planned Parenthood is closing up shop in some states, that they've suffered a lot of setbacks recently.

Do you feel like they're on the wane or are they still a major force to be dealt with?

I can't say I'm surprised to learn those details.

Final question.

You say we saw some positive signs here for your case in the oral arguments.

Do you feel in general that there's momentum on the side of pro-lifers in terms of constitutional and legal protections?

Or have we seen some setbacks in recent years?

Erin Hawley, thank you so much for joining us.

That was Alliance Defending Freedom's Erin Hawley, and this has been a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

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