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Operation Rescue reports<\/a> today that the Center for Medical Progress is seeking to appeal the Ninth Circuit Court\u2019s decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. OR says the reason for the appeal is \u201cto protect the First Amendment Rights of journalists to report to law enforcement evidence of crimes contained in undercover recordings.\u201d The Ninth Circuit Court had ruled against CMP, disallowing the group from turning over its undercover videos to law enforcement for investigation of abortion industry members\u2019 potential illegal activity.<\/p>\n

According to Operation Rescue, a three-member panel of the Ninth Circuit made the original ruling suppressing the group\u2019s videos, and a hearing by the full panel was denied. The group states:<\/p>\n

A joint motion filed May 5, 2017, is seeking a stay of the Ninth Circuit\u2019s mandate pending the filing of a certiorari petition with the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The motion states that the court wrongly upheld a \u201cprior restraint\u201d on CMP\u2019s First Amendment speech, which had captured great public interest. The undercover videos were also the subject of investigations by House and Senate panels that later referred Planned Parenthood organizations to the U.S. Department of Justice and state Attorneys General for further criminal investigation and prosecution.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrior restraints are \u2018the most serious and least tolerable infringement of First Amendment Rights,\u2019\u201d stated the motion to stay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Defense attorneys for the Center for Medical Progress stated that \u201coutside the context of trade secrets and classified information, no federal court \u2013 other than now this Court \u2013 has upheld an order suppressing information of high public interest based simply on the agreement of the parties to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

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OR\u2019s senior vice president Cheryl Sullenger added that in its decision, the Ninth Circuit \u201chas opted to protect the ability of the NAF [National Abortion Federation] and Planned Parenthood to conceal possible criminal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

While pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood have attempted to convince the public<\/a> that CMP\u2019s undercover videos were \u201cfaked\u201d and \u201cdeceptively edited,\u201d two forensic analyses found no evidence of this<\/a>, and California AG Xavier Becerra is currently prosecuting<\/a> CMP investigators David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt for recording abortion industry professionals without their knowledge. Charges previously brought against Daleiden and Merritt in the state of Texas were dropped<\/a>, and it was discovered that the grand jury never considered bringing charges against Planned Parenthood. It was also discovered that prosecutors in D.A. Devon Anderson\u2019s office had unethically exchanged information<\/a> with Planned Parenthood\u2019s attorneys.<\/p>\n

There is currently no word on whether the Supreme Court will take up the Center for Medical Progress\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Operation Rescue reports today that the Center for Medical Progress is seeking to appeal the Ninth Circuit Court\u2019s decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. OR says the reason for the appeal is \u201cto protect the First Amendment Rights of journalists to report to law enforcement evidence of crimes contained in undercover recordings.\u201d The Ninth Circuit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":85743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nCenter for Medical Progress seeks appeal to Supreme Court against suppression of videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ninth Circuit's ruling disallows the group from even giving the undercover videos to law enforcement to investigate potential illegal activity.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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