{"id":240685,"date":"2026-05-07T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/supreme-court-was-right-to-protect-donor-privacy-and-nc-was-ready\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:55:07","slug":"supreme-court-was-right-to-protect-donor-privacy-and-nc-was-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/supreme-court-was-right-to-protect-donor-privacy-and-nc-was-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court was right to protect donor privacy, and NC was ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court was right to protect donor privacy, and NC was ready<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/opinion\/supreme-court-was-right-to-protect-donor-privacy-and-nc-was-ready\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-07 01:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.carolinajournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Last September, when the John Locke Foundation filed an amicus brief in the case of First Choice Women\u2019s Resource Centers, I wrote that New Jersey\u2019s attorney general was not really trying to enforce a consumer protection law. He was sending a message: Support a cause the government dislikes, and you could pay the price. Last week, a unanimous Supreme Court held that organizations do not have to wait for a state court to force compliance before they can fight back in federal court.<\/p>\n

The decision in \u202fFirst Choice Women\u2019s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport\u202f is correct, important, and timely. It forecloses a tactic that government officials across the political spectrum have used to harass and silence organizations they oppose \u2014 and North Carolina, having just won this exact battle in our own legislature, understands better than most what is at stake.<\/p>\n

What the Attorney General Did<\/strong><\/h3>\n

First Choice has served pregnant women in New Jersey since 1985. In 2022, then-Attorney General Matthew Platkin created a \u201cReproductive Rights Strike Force\u201d that accused groups like First Choice of spreading false information about abortion, despite receiving zero public complaints about the organization. He then served it with a sweeping subpoena demanding the names, addresses, phone numbers, and employers of virtually every donor who had given by any means other than one state-approved webpage. Nearly 5,000 contributions were at issue. Two federal courts dismissed the challenge, holding the subpoena was \u201cnon-self-executing\u201d and caused no cognizable injury yet. The Supreme Court reversed, unanimously, in an opinion by Justice Gorsuch.<\/p>\n

Why the Court Got It Right<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Donor privacy is not a new idea. In NAACP v. Alabama (1958), the Supreme Court held that compelled disclosure can suppress a protected association as effectively as an outright ban \u2014 and has reaffirmed that principle ever since. Justice Gorsuch applied it with clarity: The harm does not…<\/p>\n

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