AFPF v. Bonta: Democrats Blast Supreme Court Decision, but Kamala Harris & Xavier Becerra to Blame

Democrats and progressive pundits are hopping mad about the Supreme Court’s decision in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, which held that states could not routinely ask nonprofit advocacy groups to disclose their donors:

(Side note: You can see how Pelosi, Millhiser, and Hasen deceptively frame the case by the fact that they persistently misidentify the plaintiff. Each refers to the case as being brought by “Americans for Prosperity,” the name of the 501(c)(4) organization that can participate in elections, rather than the Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF), the actual plaintiff, which is a 501(c)(3) organization prohibited from engaging in electoral politics. It speaks poorly not only of Hasen that he has been doing this but of the New York Times fact-checkers that they’ve let him get away with it.)

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Democrats and progressive pundits are hopping mad about the Supreme Court’s decision in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, which held that states could not routinely ask nonprofit advocacy groups to disclose their donors:

(Side note: You can see how Pelosi, Millhiser, and Hasen deceptively frame the case by the fact that they persistently misidentify the plaintiff. Each refers to the case as being brought by “Americans for Prosperity,” the name of the 501(c)(4) organization that can participate in elections, rather than the Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF), the actual plaintiff, which is a 501(c)(3) organization prohibited from engaging in electoral politics. It speaks poorly not only of Hasen that he has been doing this but of the New York Times fact-checkers that they’ve let him get away with it.)