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Benjamin P. Sisney serves as Senior Counsel for Litigation and Public Policy at the ACLJ’s Washington D.C. office. He also serves as the ACLJ's Director of FOIA Practice. Sisney practiced law in Oklahoma City for five years, following the conclusion of his two-year clerkship with United States District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell in Tulsa, two years with the American Center for Law and Justice in Virginia, and a Legal Fellowship with Senator James M. Inhofe in Washington, D.C. Sisney graduated from Regent University School of Law in 2007. As a law student, he interned with an Oklahoma District Attorney's office and Oklahoma’s oil and gas administrative law court. Sisney’s practice has focused in the areas of government affairs and accountability, international and United Nations affairs, pro-life litigation and issues, family law, First Amendment law, and religious liberty.
In a major step forward in the fight for life, the Oklahoma legislature just passed – and the Governor just signed into law – one of the most aggressive pro-life bills in history to hold abortionists accountable for taking the lives innocent unborn babies. The Oklahoma Senate voted 37 – 9 and the...
The Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz has released another staggering report in his investigation of FBI Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant process abuses. And once-redacted footnotes from his previous 2019 report, which have now been declassified ,
The ACLJ remains fully engaged in our work to ensure government accountability, and this includes our state and federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) practice. While government agencies are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and much of FOIA processing has been placed on hold until things...
Today marks a victory for the prolife movement in Maryland. A major pro-abortion bill was just pulled from the state Senate by the bill’s sponsor after our legal team filed written testimony and showed up to testify against it. In a last-minute move, the sponsor of Maryland Senate Bill 664, which...
Drug and human trafficking, along with all sorts of related criminal activity, is surging at our nation’s southern border. The leftist-aligned political leaders of 19 States have filed a lawsuit to try to stop the Trump Administration from securing and protecting our border. The ACLJ is taking...
As we reported last week, ACLJ attorneys recently appeared before a committee of Maryland state legislators in support of two critical pro-life bills, one requiring meaningful informed consent for women considering abortion, and the other restricting abortions after the child is 20 weeks old in the...
The abortion industry’s efforts to intimidate, harass, and shut down pro-life pregnancy centers are relentless. They file lawsuits. They fund politicians’ campaigns. They covertly send abortion supporters into pregnancy centers (who pose as potential clients) looking for anything that can be used...
You’ve read about the shocking legislation abortion advocates passed in New York: the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), that removed New York’s restrictions on abortion and would allow abortion up to the moment of birth. You’ve also heard about how Virginia’s Governor and legislators – bought and paid...
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