The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision Wednesday allowing faith-based pregnancy centers to proceed with their First Amendment challenge against New Jersey's attorney general in federal court.

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that First Choice Women's Resource Centers can move forward with their constitutional challenge to a subpoena issued by New Jersey's Democratic attorney general. The attorney general's office has been investigating allegations that the centers may have misled donors into believing they support abortion services.

Lower courts had previously ruled that the pregnancy centers had not adequately demonstrated their case could proceed in federal court. The Supreme Court's decision overturns those earlier rulings and allows the centers to argue their First Amendment rights were violated by the state's investigation.

The case centers on whether the attorney general's subpoena and investigation constitute an infringement on the centers' free speech and religious exercise rights. The pregnancy centers, which typically counsel women against abortion, argued that the state's actions represented government overreach targeting their religious mission.

The unanimous nature of the decision suggests broad agreement among the justices that the centers should have the opportunity to make their constitutional arguments in federal court, regardless of the ultimate merits of their claims.