![]() ![]() leaders often said that the Bible wasn’t just for the faithful it was a universal guide to “human flourishing.” Accordingly, Bauslaugh told the fund-raisers, A.D.F. In the words of one of its founders, its purpose was “to keep the door open for the Gospel”: to prevent the American Civil Liberties Union and the courts from interfering with Christian ministry, to stop them from removing abortion from the jurisdiction of legislatures, and to keep religion in public life. was quietly revising its mission altogether, to reflect both the changing times and the group’s growing ambitions. and the Biden Administration from a regulatory standpoint,” he noted that there was “a ton of corruption in the bureaucratic state.” Calling it “a massive pushback on the F.D.A. One of Bauslaugh’s lieutenants offered a potential fund-raising pitch: “If I told you five years ago that you could have invested in Roe being overturned, how much would you have invested in that? If I can tell you now that we are going to protect life even more, how much do you want to invest in that?”īauslaugh framed the case yet more broadly, beyond abortion or even Christianity. The mifepristone case was plunging A.D.F. ![]() The hearing itself, Bauslaugh noted, offered “fund-raising opportunities.” Donations had been flat lately Bauslaugh blamed the economy, but surely the reversal of Roe had sapped some donors’ motivation. That alone would be “huge.” (A left-leaning investigative organization called Documented provided me with leaked recordings of the video conference and other events, along with hundreds of pages of internal documents.) approval was “a tough thing to do.” He said of the judge, “Maybe he gives us half of what we are seeking”-say, restoring limits on mail-order delivery. Many of the sixty-odd members of A.D.F.’s fund-raising department gathered during the hearing to pray for a win, and, in a video conference the next day, Lance Bauslaugh, A.D.F.’s senior vice-president of development, told the staff that Erin Hawley was “super grateful.” Even though the Amarillo judge was “very friendly,” Bauslaugh said, upending a decades-old F.D.A. ![]() (Other alumni clerked last term for Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Amy Coney Barrett.) ![]() program for law students an alumnus of the program is clerking for him this fall. The summer before, Kacsmaryk’s chambers had chosen an intern from an A.D.F. to argue before Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee who had previously worked as the deputy general counsel of First Liberty Institute-a conservative Christian advocacy organization that has received grants from A.D.F. Filing the mifepristone case in Amarillo enabled A.D.F. lawyers now often find a sympathetic audience on the federal bench. Thanks to the rightward shift of the courts under Trump, A.D.F. (She is married to Senator Josh Hawley, of Missouri.) Bush, and worked on the team that overturned Roe. The lawyers sent to Amarillo were Erik Baptist, a former top lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump, and Erin Hawley, a Yale Law graduate who had clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts, advised the Attorney General under President George W. It now had seventy or so in-house lawyers, including the former solicitors general of Michigan and Nebraska and the former United States Attorney for Missouri. had tripled its revenue over that period, to more than a hundred million dollars a year. Wade allowing employer-sponsored health insurance to exclude birth control rolling back limits on government support for religious organizations protecting the anonymity of donors to advocacy groups blocking pandemic-related public-health rules and establishing the right of a baker to refuse to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. In the past dozen years, its lawyers had won fourteen Supreme Court victories, including overturning Roe v. had become that movement’s most influential arm. Founded three decades ago as a legal-defense fund for conservative Christian causes, A.D.F. During the pandemic, the agency began allowing prescriptions to be filled by mail, to accommodate social distancing.īut the lawyers, from a group called Alliance Defending Freedom, were on a winning streak. The drug had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for more than twenty years, under both Republican and Democratic administrations. They demanded a nationwide ban on mifepristone, a pill used in half the abortions in America. On March 15, 2023, two conservative Christian lawyers asked a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, for a ruling that they privately considered an almost impossible long shot. ![]()
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