New York AG Snooped on Pro-Life Activists
New York attorney general Letitia James's office deployed hidden cameras and undercover operatives against a pro-life Brooklyn pastor and his flock, but the year-long legal campaign hit a snare Thursday when a federal appeals court unanimously affirmed the protesters' right to gather.
freebeacon.com
The New York attorney general’s office, which did not respond to a request for comment, claimed the pro-life activists crowded and threatened women outside of the Choices Women’s Medical Center in Queens. The state complaint details how officials planted hidden cameras outside of the abortion clinic and hired undercover investigators to infiltrate the sidewalk events in an attempt to prove there was harassment. Stephen Crampton, senior counsel for the Thomas More Society, the nonprofit religious liberty firm that represented Griepp, said this is an example of the state targeting its political enemies to the benefit of its political allies.
“It looks to all the world that this is a targeting of pro-life activists who happen to be persistent and effective,” Crampton told the Free Beacon. “So the dirty work here is done by the state and not the clinic itself.”
