Just the News wrote about our amicus brief in The Buckeye Institute v. Internal Revenue Service. In our brief we argue that the right to anonymous association is essential to preserving a vibrant civil society in which individuals feel free to support causes they believe in without fear of retaliation.
More than 250 groups joined friend-of-the-court briefs supporting Ohio’s Buckeye Institute, which endured an IRS audit shortly after it lobbied state leaders to reject President Obama’s Medicaid expansion in 2013, against unmasking of the center-right think tank’s donors….
The Center For Individual Rights, New Civil Liberties Alliance and Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute urged the court to apply strict scrutiny as opposed to exacting scrutiny, a lower standard “applicable primarily” to campaign finance, justified to dissuade “quid pro quo corruption.”
Exacting scrutiny is wholly unsuited to 501(c)(3)s, which “must refrain from participating in electoral politics” and have faced “more than a dozen breaches of IRS data – to say nothing of the targeting of perceived political enemies by the IRS itself,” the brief says.
Read more at Just the News.