Alliance Defending Freedom

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If any organization should lead with courage on this issue, it should be the one whose name starts with “Women’s.” We recently submitted a letter to the WNBA warning about the legal implications of repeatedly silencing fans’ free expression. The ball is in the WNBA’s court. It’s time for them to take the shot on behalf of women and girls everywhere. Read more in this week's edition of The Docket.

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Children as young as five are being exposed to this. Colorado parents are rightfully concerned. After graphic lessons, lack of notice, and ineffective opt-out procedures during the 2025-26 school year, we're demanding change. This week, we sent a letter urging Roaring Fork Schools to immediately discontinue its vulgar sex ed curriculum or, at the very least, make it an opt-in system rather than opt-out. Read more in this week's edition of The Docket.

School officials display messages all the time. Pride flags. BLM posters. You name it. Yet, when Rod Theis displayed books in his office celebrating biological truth and God's good design for gender, he was censored and fired. The double standard has never been clearer. The Constitution protects Americans’ right to express their views without fear of punishment. Schools can’t censor employees simply because they don't like the message. Read Rod's story in the latest edition of The Docket.

We're grateful to have these new team members on board! Join us in giving a warm welcome to: Marisa DeVries Payton Kleidon Aspen Frederick Anna Ziel Jonathan Blanchard Jack Giddens Anastasiya Melnichuk Dave Yost Shannon Griffin Jeremy Samek James Myrmel, CPA Miriam Mosley Scott Luczu Jonathan Bridges

"God is not done with America yet." After 250 years, our nation is at a crossroads.  We have forgotten the self-evident truths that made America “the last best hope of man on the earth”. At ADF Summit 2026, Speaker Mike Johnson made the impassioned case that to ensure the continued success of the American experiment, we must teach the next generation about our foundational principles and remain one nation under God. Watch his full speech here: https://lnkd.in/ebHTHJgA

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When the government supervises a speech platform, everyone should take notice. That’s what happened under the Biden administration—where the FTC subpoenaed Twitter specifically looking for information on independent journalists. It justified this because of issues then-Twitter had in 2011. That’s why Alliance Defending Freedom submitted a comment letter to the FTC backing X Corp.’s petition to reopen and modify the agency’s 2022 consent order (Docket No. C-4316). This was an order that prior Twitter leadership appears to have snuck in at the last minute to give ongoing oversight to the Biden administration when it became clear that Elon Musk wanted to stop censorship on the platform. Let’s be clear: X isn’t the same company it was in 2011 or 2022. New ownership, new management, and entirely new privacy, security, and governance processes are already in place. If the problems the order was meant to fix have been solved, there’s no legitimate reason for the FTC to keep supervising the platform. This isn’t just about paperwork—there’s a real danger here. Our letter warns that open-ended regulatory orders create real risks—even if today's FTC leadership wouldn’t misuse them, a future administration could use “continuing oversight” to dig into X’s internal decisions, pressure its leadership, or quietly push the platform to restrict lawful speech just to avoid regulatory friction. That kind of leverage doesn’t need an explicit censorship order to have a chilling effect. We’ve seen similar supervisory censorship before. In a recent victory for an ADF client, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in First Choice Women's Res. Centers v. Davenport (2026) that companies can suffer real First Amendment harm when government agents abuse subpoena power. This is why regulatory tools like consent orders should be used sparingly and only as long as truly necessary. The FTC’s job is remedial, not indefinite control over a major public speech forum. Time to let the order go. #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #FTC #XCorp

Women deserve safety and dignity in shelters created for them—not government mandates that permit men to stay with them. Yet since 2016, HUD has required shelters to place individuals according to their self-proclaimed gender identity, disregarding the deeply held convictions of faith-based providers. When our client Sherrie Laurie stood up for her shelter's rights, the federal court sided with her. ADF’s recent comment underscores the unlawfulness of HUD’s 2016 Equal Access Rule. It also supports a proposed new rule that would protect vulnerable women and maximize provider participation. Read our full comment below.