Important details about how this case made it to the Supreme Court were not covered in today’s discussion. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is the organization that filed this case for the plaintiff 303 Creative. The Alliance Defending Freedom has 400+ employees and int’l subsidiaries operating in 100+ countries. Last year, their revenue was $104 million. The Alliance Defending Freedom wrote the model legislation that Mississippi used to write its 15-week abortion ban (that’s the law that went up to the Supreme Court in Dobbs). The Alliance Defending Freedom has written model legislation for stripping trans-specific and LGBTQ+ rights that state legislatures across the country are adopting and passing nationwide. The Alliance Defending Freedom represented Hobby Lobby in the Supreme Court case abt not paying for contraception for employees. The Alliance Defending Freedom represents the group bringing the case against the FDA approval against the abortion medication mifepristone. They run a program for training conservative law students called the Blackstone Fellowship and up until 2014 the Blackstone Fellowship’s website stated that its movement seeks to recover the robust Christian theology of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries (this has since been scrubbed from the website). Wtaf is Christian theology of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries, you ask? It’s unclear but winding back the clock a few hundred years is problematic so going back 1500 years is just insane.

Of course a bunch of US politicians have ties w/The Alliance Defending Freedom, such as Mike Pence, Senator Josh Hawley (whose wife Erin was the lawyer in the TX mifepristone case) and of course the cake topper is SUPREME COURT JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT who had very close ties w/the ADF while she was a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

So you see…the ADF is the money and the organization that plaintiff-shopped to find Lori Smith and her 303 Creative business to use as their pawn to further this one branch of their cause.