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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As I recall if the justice in charge of your circuit turns you down you can appeal “en banc,” but those are rarely granted.
This California leftist group needs to know which celebrities and business’ to boycott and blacklist.
If you’ve already lost Kennedy, you’d probably lose in the larger court. Then again, the Lesbian or Latina may want some donors to certain groups kept secret.
“The Bork Difference”
Not now...there would currently be an Obama appointee sitting in his place vs. Kennedy still being there.
The SC ceased to have any credibility or relevance when little Johnny Roberts obeyed the half breed and BOHICA’d us.
The Court made its decision; now try enforcing it. After all, why should we allow the Court to tell us what to do? The half breed doesn’t.
Kennedy carrying water for the gay mafia. He’s so anxious to give them what they want - leverage to attack any future opposition - that he sweeps aside protection for all other groups. If this stands, retributive action by the left can now be expected against anyone contributing to groups disfavored by the bolsheviks.
I guess the only way to remain anonymous is to send $50 cash in an envelope every week or so, depending on how much you want to contribute. I know this Admin tracks ‘small’ donations to groups deemed ‘Conservative’, but that small of an amount shouldn’t raise a red flag.
Maybe.
Another and probably more likely possibility is that Bork would have retired during the George W Bush Administration. Which would mean a much younger justice falling somewhere on the Roberts-Alito ideological spectrum.
Yes, the press will try to game the situation. I agree.
I agree. There are going to be problems with it. We still need to be able to track the Left though. I want to know what Soros has his little fingers in.
There’s no need to make private information public. The only reason we even have this issue is because we tax corporations. End corporate taxation and these groups can keep their privacy.
Corporations make political donations for good reasons and it is not a good idea to keep that private. The public should be aware of who and why they are providing money to any politician for goodness sakes. Bribery has become a way of life in business and politics these days.
Individuals, I might agree unless they are part of the media.
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