CNBC:
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a California rule requiring nonprofits to disclose the names and addresses of their largest donors, delivering a victory to a pair of conservative groups that had challenged the requirement as unconstitutional.
The 6-3 decision, which divided the nine justices along ideological lines, reversed a 2018 appeals court ruling siding with California’s attorney general.
The rule had forced nonprofits to give the state their so-called Schedule B forms, which include the personal information of all donors nationwide who had contributed more than $5,000 in a given tax year. The state had argued that it needed that information to help it police misconduct by charities.
“We do not doubt that California has an important interest in preventing wrongdoing by charitable organizations,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion.
But “there is a dramatic mismatch” between “the interest that the Attorney General seeks to promote and the disclosure regime that he has implemented in service of that end,” Roberts wrote. more
This is GREAT news.
It was horrific how the Leftist assholes would learn who had donated to their adversaries then would dox them, would protest, would get them fired.
I never imagined how they would weaponize against people.
This ruling stops that crap.
(None of us are used to sensible federal court rulings.)
About 20 years ago there was a Socialist running for the Seattle City Council. She went to court to het an exemption from campaign disclosure laws on the basis that her donors would have faced harassment.
Meanwhile conservative candidates, whose donors were likely to be harassed, still had to make the disclosures.