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AMICUS BRIEF | Urges Supreme Court to Review First Amendment Challenge to Mandatory State Bar Membership

Today, WILL filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in support of a suit challenging compelled membership in, and financial support of, the State Bar of Wisconsin. The Petitioner in the lawsuit, Schuyler File, represented in part by lawyers at Liberty Justice Center, argues that forcing Wisconsin lawyers to choose between practicing their profession or joining and funding an organization they do not support violates First Amendment guarantees of free speech and association.

🗯 WILL Deputy Counsel, Anthony LoCoco, said, “There is no special exception in the First Amendment for attorneys. Forcing objecting attorneys to join and fund an organization that engages in speech with which they disagree is contrary to fundamental values of free speech and free association. If the State Bar wants members, it should have to earn their support.”

Joint Letter to WI State Legislature Concerning Projected Budget Surplus

WILL Policy Director, Kyle Koenen, joined Americans for Prosperity – Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce last week in collectively urging the State Legislature to continue being fiscally responsible with the projected surplus: cutting taxes and expanding education choice to all families.

AMICUS BRIEF | ARGUES FOR PARENT RIGHTS

WILL, on behalf of Dr. Erica E. Anderson, filed an amicus brief in the Fourth Circuit last week, urging the federal court of appeals to reverse a District Court decision. This decision holds that a Montgomery County, Maryland, School District policy can exclude parents from significant decisions affecting their children and states that the policy does not violate parents’ constitutional rights. Like some other school districts around the county, the Maryland District’s policy allows minor students to secretly adopt a new gender identity at school, requiring all staff to treat them as though they were the opposite sex, without parental notice or consent, and even directs staff to conceal this from parents in various ways.

🗯 WILL Deputy Counsel, Luke Berg, said, “We have seen policies like this in school districts across the country, and they all violate parents’ constitutional rights. It’s up to the parents to raise their child, not school staff.”

📰 Read more about this recent legal action in Fox News.