like how nobody has ever seen the COMMUNIST PARTY OF america donation books...
Posted on 07/01/2021 8:31:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a 6-3 opinion issued Thursday morning, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a California requirement for charitable organizations to turn over information on donors is unconstitutional.
The opinion of the Court — authored by Chief Justice John Roberts — in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, Attorney General of California, found that "California’s disclosure requirement is facially invalid because it burdens donors’ First Amendment rights and is not narrowly tailored to an important government interest."
The invalidated measure required charities in California to turn over names of their largest donors to the state, something conservatives say would allow liberal authorities to target conservative donors while dissuading individuals from giving to conservative causes, a fact the majority noted:
"We are left to conclude that the Attorney General’s disclosure requirement imposes a widespread burden on donors’ associational rights. And this burden cannot be justified on the ground that the regime is narrowly tailored to investigating charitable wrongdoing, or that the State’s interest in administrative convenience is sufficiently important."
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation gained widespread support for their position against California's donor disclosure requirement and had hundreds of individuals and organizations "representing a range of issues including religious liberties, LGBTQ rights, free speech, racial justice, animal welfare, international aid, tax reform, and human rights" file friend-of-the-court briefs with the Supreme Court.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
AND HERE’s ANOTHER GEM FROM OBAMA’s PICK - THE WISE LATINA:
In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated that “Today’s decision discards decades of First Amendment jurisprudence recognizing that reporting and disclosure requirements do not directly burden associational rights.”
like how nobody has ever seen the COMMUNIST PARTY OF america donation books...
She would have shot down the Miranda ruling if that’s her feelings.
Dictatorships are paranoid.
Her feelings??
Snort.
Deep State controls SCOTUS. Tells it what to take, what to write.
Anybody who thinks we still have an independent judiciary is in a for a very nasty surprise.
In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated that “Today’s decision discards decades of First Amendment jurisprudence recognizing that reporting and disclosure requirements do not directly burden associational rights.”
Unless we ask leftists and their buddies to do the same thing.
The left uses these lists of donors to destroy people they don’t like. Making the lists public is a deterrent to free speech and freedom of expression and basic privacy rights.
What was California’s purported rationale for wanting this information in the first place? Anyone know?
I can never understand why liberals cannot see that the laws or methods they want to use can ultimately be used against them.
Get rid of the filibuster, the next administration uses it against your own members. Get rid of privacy rights and it will be used against you.
The ONLY impetus for obtaining these donor lists is for doxing and applying criminal harassment against the donors. The homo groups are famous for this.
Sure took long enough.
Soros wipes brow.
Does she ever cite the Constitution in her dissents. Seems like she only ever cites bad precedent in lower court decisions. She seems to be intellectually incurious.
Bkmk
Our criminal establishments only enacts laws so that they can be used like a hunting license. These creeps have the option to hunt, prosecute, and imprison their own but they prefer to feast on meat of their political enemies.
I really like the use of that word “regime” in that snippet from the majority opinion.
You mean like the way they can go after Hunter Biden for lying on his 4473?
Only about 10 years too late, long after the Tea Party movement.
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