8 2 2025 Erin Mersino

Ed Bonderenka and callers speak with Erin Mersino, Vice President and Chief of Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation for Advocates for Faith and Freedom about cases they are pursuing at the district and SCOTUS level to protect our liberty.Erin has won and litigated many cases in our nation’s highest courts, including before the United States Supreme Court and most of the federal circuit courts of appeal including the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits. Erin has worked on some of the most influential legal issues in our present day, including the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act under the Commerce Clause, the legality of the HHS Mandate under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the scope of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise clause.  Erin obtained the second injunction in the nation against the Obama Administration’s HHS Mandate. Some highlights of her career include convincing Judge Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit during oral argument to decide in her favor when he was disposed not to and arguing before 17 judges of the Sixth Circuit sitting en banc.  Recently, Erin won a several weeks long trial in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in Austin.  Erin has represented many high-profile Catholics and Christians, notably winning multi-million dollar cases for clients Tom Monaghan and Bill Donohue of the Catholic League.