Reply With Quoteyour thread title says scotus ruled, yet your link says they refused to hear the case....
patriot and widower
scotus rules on anonymous donations
will they make up their minds?
Assisted suicide initiative foes lose U.S. Supreme Court appeal
The Spokesman-Review
By Jim Camden, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.
Feb. 23--OLYMPIA -- The U.S. Supreme Court answered once and for all Tuesday whether a conservative group can hide the names of donors to a campaign against an assisted suicide initiative.
It can't.
The court refused to hear an appeal of lower courts' rulings against Human Life of Washington, which sought an injunction against the state's Public Disclosure Commission for a planned 2008 campaign against assisted suicide.
It was the second time in eight months the nation's highest court upheld state disclosure laws being challenged by faith-based groups. In both cases the groups were defended by an attorney who challenges election laws around the country.
Human Life argued in the state's public disclosure laws violated its First Amendment rights, and that it wouldn't be mentioning Initiative 1000, which sought to legalize assisted suicide in the state, but was merely offering information about issue of assisted suicide.
The federal district court denied the injunction and Human Life never launched the campaign. I-1000 qualified for the ballot and was approved by voters that November.
The attorney for Human Life, James Bopp Jr. of the Indiana-based James Madison Center for Free Speech, recently described the case as one that sought to protect vital First Amendment rights. Human Life was being required "to spend many hours keeping exact records and filing detailed, complicated reports of receipts and expenditures," he wrote in a statement for the center's website last week.
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel also sided with the state requirements. The state's public disclosure law, approved by voters in 1974, represents "an important part of our First Amendment tradition," the panel said. It gives the public access to information about what their government is doing.
With the Supreme Court's decision Tuesday -- technically a denial of certiorari -- the appeals court ruling stands.
It's the second challenge to state disclosure laws to fall short at the nation's highest court.
In June, the Supreme Court rejected a request by another group represented by Bopp to block disclosure of names on all initiative and referendum petitions. Protect Marriage Washington had circulated Referendum 71, which sought to overturn the new domestic partnership law in 2009, and argued releasing the names on petitions violated the signers' constitutional rights.
Voters agreed to keep the new domestic partnership laws in 2009, and passed assisted suicide in 2008.
Secretary of State Sam Reed, the state's top elections officer, called Tuesday's decision another victory for Washington voters: "They want their political process to be open and transparent and to know who's working to change public policy."
Disclosure laws have been challenged from both ends of the political spectrum, Reed said. In the early 1990s, the Socialist Workers Party was allowed to shield its donors after the courts agreed those people could be fired if employers learned they were members of the party. But such exemptions must be granted case by case, the courts said.
A trial on Protect Marriage Washington's narrower request to block just Referendum 71 signatures is set for later this year.
In last year's Referendum 71 ruling, Reed noted that Justice Antonin Scalia had advice for people entering the political arena.
"Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed," Scalia wrote.
Editor's note: This story has been updated from the print edition.
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freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose
first there was the leg race then the arms race and now the brain race
all animals are created equal - G. Orwell
some animals are more equal that others - SCOTUS
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your thread title says scotus ruled, yet your link says they refused to hear the case....
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Pinheads don't understand the difference....
The state determines what is legal in that state...it isn't any business of the Feds..
Put blame where it belongs
ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
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what if the state enacts a law that violates the us constitution?Originally Posted by bravo
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JPP Staff
Every donation to any political entity should be forced into the open by law.
No more hiding behind small amounts or 527s. It's not okay to not know who is influencing our elections.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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It gets struck down.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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absolutely
Thrillhouse
527s are required to disclose their donors.
patriot and widower
refusing to hear a case or denying certorti has the effect of sustaining a lower court ruling that has been appealed to scotus, hence the ruling is sustained
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certiorari#United_States
come dance w Jak o the shadows
freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose
first there was the leg race then the arms race and now the brain race
all animals are created equal - G. Orwell
some animals are more equal that others - SCOTUS
patriot and widower
wrong pinprick, federal law supersedes state and local laws
if a state passes a law and scotus or a lower court finds that the law is unconstitutional or superseded by federal law then the law is struck down when it is appealed to a higher court
come dance w Jak o the shadows
freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose
first there was the leg race then the arms race and now the brain race
all animals are created equal - G. Orwell
some animals are more equal that others - SCOTUS
Loyal to the end
No, they are required to provide a list of names. George Soros gave millions to Democrats over the last few campaigns using fake names.
Thrillhouse
No, they are required to disclose their donors. In 2010, Soros's contributions didn't rank all that highly among the big donors. In 2008, he donated a total of $5,000,000 to several 527s, tying him with casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson for the second biggest contributor to 527s behind Fred Eschelman. In 2006, he ranked third. In 2004, the first year 527s were active, he was the single largest donor.
Of course, these are facts and they may be inconsistent with your fantasy world.
Catalyst
Link?
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
Loyal to the end
Connect the dots:http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/a...contributions/in 2008 Obama’s FEC records were full of donations from people with obviously fake names, and other questionable material.
Thrillhouse
Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs promoted a theory that Obama is a the love child of Malcolm X. I wouldn't necessarily consider her or her blog a credible source on much of anything, particularly anything concerning Obama.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/a...uld-stanl.html
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