Trump Picks Anti-Porn Activist for Missouri District Court

Trump Picks Anti-Porn Activist for Missouri District Court

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today’s round of judicial nominations by the Trump administration include a Missouri district court seat for Sarah Pitlyk, counsel for religious group the Thomas More Society, a non-profit law firm formed to protect the right of protesters to harass people outside abortion clinics. The Thomas More Society now offers legal support to zealots waging the “War on Porn.”

This past July’s, Pitlyk’s firm “claimed victory” when a Minnesota district court sided with the Christian Action League of Minnesota, when the religious group targeted advertisers of the Twin Cities’ alt-weekly, the City Pages, because the publication was “promoting strip clubs, porn stores and phone sex ads.”

“The Thomas More Society, having won a victory on behalf of the League, will now take the next step and file a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the Minnesota statute that allowed a restraining order” against the Christian Action League’s defunding campaign, the newly nominated judge’s Christian law firm stated in a release.

Explaining why it got involved in the case, Pitlyk’s firm explained that “the Thomas More Society is defending the [League] against attack for its work against sexual exploitation and pornography addiction.”

One of the most common strategies for those waging the current "War on Porn" is drumming up social panic over a made-up “public health crisis” around the discredited Victorian ailment of “porn addiction”.

“The Christian Action League of Minnesota is dedicated to helping those with an addiction to pornography for the health and well-being of both the viewer and the objectified,” read the statement by Trump’s nominee to the Eastern District of Missouri seat.

“Because the group believed that local advertisers might be uncomfortable sharing advertising space with purveyors of pornography, personal postcards were sent to advertisers in City Pages,” the Thomas More Society added.

Sarah Pitlyk is described by the legal press as “a special counsel at the Thomas More Society, a conservative firm based out of Chicago known for advocating for pro-life causes” who also worked for Clark & Sauer in St. Louis, Missouri, was an associate for Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. and attended Catholic universities Georgetown and Boston College, and Yale Law.

Pitlyk came to public attention last year during the Kavanaugh hearings, when she publicly questioned Christien Blasey Ford’s testimony about her sexual assault, insisting that she found it “hard to find this allegation credible, especially when it has come to light in such a transparently politically motivated manner.”

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