Posted on 02/19/2015 7:01:08 PM PST by Kaslin
A federal court on Tuesday blocked efforts by officials in California to force a conservative group to hand over the names of its donors, saying the order could violate those donors’ First Amendment rights.
Kamala Harris, California’s attorney general and a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, demanded last year that the Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) turn over its donor rolls. The court enjoined that demand pending the outcome of AFPF’s suit attempting to invalidate the order.
AFPF claims that the disclosure would subject its donors to “grotesque threats” similar to the routine attacks against Charles and David Koch, the group’s founders, and would therefore chill their free speech. The court agreed.
“Donors who have witnessed harassment of those perceived to be connected with plaintiff’s co-founders have experienced their unwillingness to continue to participate if such limited disclosure is made,” said Judge Manuel Real of the District Court of the Central District of California.
AFPF, the judge said, “has proffered sufficient evidence establishing that public disclosure would have a chilling effect on free speech.”
Harris’ does not have adequate measures in place to compartmentalize and protect sensitive personal information contained in AFPF’s annual tax filings, the court noted.
Its policies regarding the treatment of identifying donor information, the court said, is “impermissibly entirely discretionary and could change at any moment.”
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Boom! Take that, Kamala! Good news.
BTW- The Texas Supreme Court has basically blocked Travis County from issuing gay marriage licenses, the Texas AG Ken Paxton said:
This morning, a rogue state District Judge in Austin instructed the Travis County Clerk to certify a marriage license for a same sex couple. That license is invalid, just as any license issued in violation of state law would be.
I took immediate action, asking the Texas Supreme Court to stay this proceeding. This afternoon, the Texas Supreme Court granted my request to stay two court rulings that declared Texas’ marriage law unconstitutional. As Attorney General, I will continue to defend the will of the people of Texas, who have defined marriage as between one man and one woman, against any judicial activism or overreach.
Boom, boom!
Go, TX AG and SC!!
The documented harassment of Prop 8-related initiatives / traditional marriage donors in California is proof that if you give the liberal Californians info on the few conservatives willing to put money and effort into their cause, they’ll face threats, harassment, efforts to get them fired, etc.
Harris is now revealing herself to be just another leftist bitch. Surprise, surprise!
so despite California being a Democrat run state with Leftwing groups funding Dem policians Harris targets a Conservative group. No bias their!!
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