Posted on 05/18/2015 8:44:09 PM PDT by Steelfish
Supreme Court Refuses To Shield Names of Donors To Political Advocacy Groups
By DAVID G. SAVAGE A conservative group that wants to keep its donor names secret loses a round at the Supreme Court Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy dealt a speedy setback Monday to conservative advocacy groups that had sought to shield the names of their major donors in California.
Without waiting to consult the full court, Kennedy turned down for now an emergency appeal from the Virginia-based Center for Competitive Politics, which has refused to reveal its donors to California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris.
The center has been a leading voice in arguing for free speech and free spending in politics. It does not fund candidates or campaigns, but challenges regulations that restrict political advocacy groups.
In recent months, lawyers for the center have been fighting against a regulation that affects it directly. Nonprofit groups that seek tax-exempt contributions in California and elsewhere must submit disclosure forms to the Internal Revenue Service and to the state.
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“...which has refused to reveal its donors to California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris.”
Who will promptly proceed to share them with every left wing activist group in order to intimidate, bully, and so on every name on the list.
Sorry but both left wing and right wings groups need to have disclosure. This is only problematic because of the media that seems to only disclose right wing group donations.
If this continues, I’m not really sure what will happen but probably some kind of revolution amongst newspaper folks at least.
Both of them?
And why does Kennedy alone have this power?
He is not even Chief Justice.
How does he get to turn it down and the rest of the court doesn’t even have time to consider it?
Oh, I don’t disagree. Disclosure is important, no matter what group it is. I’m just feeling cynical tonight about Harris’ motives. She’s not thinking in terms of sunshine laws or transparency, I’d wager. She’s a snake, and an ambitious one at that.
Didn't their lawyers see that coming?
What’s wrong with that? If you give money to a cause, you should own it, fully.
just tell Kamala the computer crashed, all data was lost, emails accidentally erased, and the building that housed the servers burned to the ground.
Oh, I have no doubt that motives are not about sunshine but I still think that you can not make a ruling against openness even if it may cause harm (snake is a kind word). Now if actual threats are carried out, well, that is against current law.
Okay, maybe between FOX and the rest of the Media... :^)
Kennedy is in charge of appeals coming out of the Ninth Circuit. He once served on the Ninth Circuit and is from Sacramento.
I agree. If this were a left wing group we’d want disclosure.
Unfortunately, the Media may or may not provide this information, depending upon their preferences. That is a major problem! Thank goodness that their are other outlets but not as loud. Could be just enough delay for elections though. Unfortunately, the left is not stupid and plan for those delays in reporting.
Maybe, but we wouldn’t destroy someone simply because they donated to some group with which we don’t agree. THAT’S the difference.
Ah, they assign justices a circuit. I suppose the Chief Justice would get two circuits, considering there are 10, but nine scotus justices.
Unfortunately it’s the left that is out to destroy but you can not withhold information from folks for that reason. Donor information is required for information unfortunately.
Maybe it is just time for the right to do the same I guess. Seems that little else seems to matter to them.
I wish there was a better way but can not see one! Sometimes evil tends to overtake good and unless good replies, things won’t change.
as “we” slide to GOMORRAH...
Each justice is in charge of one or more circuits.
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