One day before the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling, The New Republic published a report insinuating that Smith, who said she received a wedding website request in September 2016 from two men, was lying. A man identified as “Stewart” allegedly told the outlet that he never made the request and has been “happily married to a woman for the last 15 years.”

That request was not the basis for the lawsuit that Smith had preemptively filed. And Smith’s attorneys say that she is being purposefully slandered.

ADF President Kristen Waggoner called the report a “desperate, bad-faith attempt to undermine the ruling that protects speech for everyone,” emphasizing that Smith did receive a request from a third party through her website, and “whether it was a troll or genuine, she doesn’t know, because had she followed up and declined, Colorado threatened she’d be breaking the law.”

[Alexandria Brown had a good Twitter thread on this claim yesterday as well. Twitchy picked it up at the time. Be sure to read both all the way through. — Ed]