Welcome to the TMS Weekly Dispatch for May 1, 2026—with the latest news and updates from the front line, to keep you in-the-know on all things Thomas More Society. If you missed the last edition, click here.  

Here's the latest from the past week:

THOMAS MORE SOCIETY TESTIFIES AT HOUSE JUDICIARY HEARING ON FACE ACT WEAPONIZATION: Thomas More Society Senior Counsel Christopher Ferrara testified on April 28 before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government at a hearing titled "From Tool to Weapon: The FACE Act and the Dangers of Federalizing Criminal Law."

The hearing came on the heels of the DOJ Weaponization Working Group report released April 14, 2026. Based on a review of more than 700,000 internal records, the nearly 900-page report details a pattern of selective prosecution, coordination with abortion industry groups, and prosecutorial misconduct in the Biden Administration's enforcement of the FACE Act.  

Watch the full hearing below. If you'd like to read Ferrara's written testimony, click here.

THOMAS MORE SOCIETY RELEASES 2025 IMPACT REPORT: Thomas More Society's 2025 Impact Report is here, and the story it tells is one of belief turned into action.

2025 opened with a momentous victory. Following pardon petitions submitted by Thomas More Society attorneys, President Trump granted full presidential pardons for Paul Vaughn and 23 other peaceful pro-life advocates unjustly prosecuted under the weaponized FACE Act. The year closed with another historic win against California's gender secrecy regime—which made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court and culminated in the ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta, striking down California's secret school gender transition policies and reshaping parental rights law for a generation.

Between those bookends, our attorneys fought on battlefronts across the country, defending brave individuals who refuse to back down, even when standing for the truth costs them everything. Inside the report, you'll find stories you won't read anywhere else—from Pasha Bohlen, a nurse who has spent over two decades counseling women at Pregnancy Aid Illinois, to TMS Special Counsel Paul M. Jonna's behind-the-scenes account of litigating Mirabelli v. Bonta all the way to the Supreme Court, to the fight to shut down a residential abortion business operating on an expired 1982 permit.

Read the full report here.

THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ATTORNEYS ARGUE SUMMARY JUDGEMENT HEARING IN CALIFORNIA APR CASE: Thomas More Society attorneys were in Oakland, California this week for a summary judgment hearing in People of the State of California v. Heartbeat International & RealOptions—the lawsuit in which California Attorney General Rob Bonta seeks to prohibit pro-life pregnancy centers from sharing information about Abortion Pill Reversal (APR), a protocol that uses progesterone to counteract the effects of the first abortion pill.

After more than two years of litigation and extensive discovery, the state has failed to produce a single consumer complaint, any evidence of harm, or a sufficient legal basis to restrict constitutionally protected speech. Discovery revealed that the state's key harm study by Dr. Mitchell Creinin was contradicted by his own deposition testimony, peer-reviewed studies document pregnancy continuation rates of 64–68% following APR treatment compared to as low as 8% without, and Attorney General Bonta explicitly admitted he cannot satisfy strict scrutiny.

Watch a post-hearing reaction from a pregnancy center plaintiff in the case here.  

THOMAS MORE SOCIETY HAILS TRUMP DOJ ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS REPORT AS VINDICATION FOR CLIENTS OF FAITH WHO FOUGHT BACK: This week, Thomas More Society welcomed the release of the Trump Department of Justice Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias's nearly 200-page report, which details how the Biden Administration's prosecutions, policies, and practices demonstrated anti-Christian bias throughout the federal government.  

The findings vindicate Thomas More Society clients who endured years of government hostility for living out their faith—from peaceful pro-life Americans prosecuted under the weaponized FACE Act, to Coast Guard service members whose religious accommodation requests were denied.  

More details here.

FIFTH CIRCUIT TEMPORARILY BLOCKS MAIL-ORDER ABORTION DRUG RULE IN CASE WHERE THOMAS MORE SOCIETY FILED AMICUS BRIEF: Today, May 1, a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit panel issued a temporary order halting enforcement of the FDA's 2023 rule that removed the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone, allowing the abortion drug to be distributed through the mail. The panel concluded that Louisiana is likely to prevail in its challenge to the rule.

The ruling came in State of Louisiana v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration—the same case in which Thomas More Society helped submit an amicus curiae brief in February at the district court level on behalf of Heartbeat International.