{"id":237143,"date":"2026-04-29T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/locke-ceo-praises-scotus-ruling-upholding-donor-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:50:10","slug":"locke-ceo-praises-scotus-ruling-upholding-donor-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/locke-ceo-praises-scotus-ruling-upholding-donor-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Locke CEO praises SCOTUS ruling upholding donor privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/locke-ceo-praises-scotus-ruling-upholding-donor-privacy\/\">Locke CEO praises SCOTUS ruling upholding donor privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/locke-ceo-praises-scotus-ruling-upholding-donor-privacy\/\">https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/locke-ceo-praises-scotus-ruling-upholding-donor-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-29 14:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.carolinajournal.com\">www.carolinajournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The head of the John Locke Foundation praised the nation\u2019s highest court Wednesday for its unanimous decision in a donor privacy case from New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>In First Choice Women\u2019s Resource Centers v. Davenport, the high court ruled that a faith-based pregnancy center had legal standing to make a First Amendment challenge to a subpoena from the New Jersey attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>When the case started in 2023, then-AG Matthew Platkin sent a subpoena seeking First Choice\u2019s donor lists and other information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s unanimous Supreme Court decision is a major victory for donor privacy and freedom of association,\u201d said Locke CEO Donald Bryson. \u201cThe Court made clear that government demands for private donor information can chill First Amendment rights even before those demands are enforced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Carolina lawmakers understood this principle when they enacted the Personal Privacy Protection Act over Governor Stein\u2019s veto in July 2025,\u201d Bryson added. \u201cThat law protects the privacy of nonprofit donors, members, volunteers, and supporters from government overreach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonor privacy is not a partisan issue; it is a constitutional safeguard for every American who wants to support a cause without fear of intimidation or retaliation,\u201d Bryson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA federal law \u2014 42 U. 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C. \u00a71983 \u2014 authorizes suits against any person who, under color of state law, deprives another of his federal constitutional rights,\u201d Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the unanimous Supreme Court. \u201cFirst Choice filed a complaint under that statute, arguing, among other things, that the Attorney General\u2019s demand for information about its donors violated its First Amendment rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically, First Choice observed that the First Amendment \u2018prohibits the government from discouraging people from associating with others\u2019 \u2018in pursuit of many political, social, economic, educational, religious, and cultural ends,\u2019\u201d Gorsuch added. \u201cAnd,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/locke-ceo-praises-scotus-ruling-upholding-donor-privacy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locke CEO praises SCOTUS ruling upholding donor privacy https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/locke-ceo-praises-scotus-ruling-upholding-donor-privacy\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-29 14:40:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AdobeStock_59851106-scaled-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237145,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237143\/revisions\/237145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}