Today, we filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in support of a petition for writ of certiorari, asking the Court to review a California ban on mental health providers pro-hetrosexual therapies to minors. Interestingly, the California law, SB 1172, does not ban pro-homosexual therapies. We reject the notion that the Free Exercise Clause was written to give special rights to religious people.
USJF Comments opposing Mandatory Pro Bono Reporting
There is an effort underway by elements in the federal and state judiciary and leftist lawyers and lawyer groups to increase political controls over lawyers — on whom the American people rely on to protect their interests. Some states are trying to force lawyers to devote free legal services to favored classes of persons. Historically, this proposal has been a cover for the misuse of
Article: Ed Meese: Proposed Lawyer Ethics Rule ‘Borders on Fascism’
An article by Theodore Bunker in Newsmax cited our article in the American Thinker on the proposed ABA rule on discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Article: “Ed Meese: Proposed Lawyer Ethics Rule ‘Borders on Fascism'”
This article by Newsmax mentions our comments on the ABA effort to punish lawyers not sufficiently sensitive to homosexuals, transgenders, etc.
America’s Lawyers Face “Knockout Blow” for LGBT Dissent — Scales of justice tipped to “purify” profession
World Net Daily’s Bob Unruh published a timely story exposing the true nature of the ABA proposed ethics change, published on the eve of the meeting of the ABA House of Delegates in San Francisco.
Article: “‘PC’ Politics Drove ABA’s Proposed Rules Change — A push for new classes of “harassment” in professional ethics reflects hubris and elitism”
We were grateful that the National Law Journal published the fourth article in the U.S. Justice Foundation’s series on the proposed ABA Ethics Changes. This Op Ed was the lead in the National Law Journals email to subscribers sent out on August 8, 2016.
We reproduce here a couple of paragraphs from our article:
“The American Bar Association is on the verge of making sweeping changes
Article: “The ABA Plan to Politically Purify the Legal Profession”
The second article in our series on the ABA proposed ethics rules for the U.S. Justice Foundation was published by the Federalist Society and posted on its Blog.
Article: “The ABA’s Plan to Impose Political Correctness on the Practice of Law”
The U.S. Justice Foundation engaged our firm to publish a series of articles exposing the “politically correct” ethics proposals being considered by the American Bar Association at its annual meeting in San Francisco. The American Thinker published the first article in the series.