This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, March 6, 2024.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The Supreme Court spoke pretty clearly on behalf of donor privacy and the AFPF v Banta decision, the states are still moving

ahead with attempts to subvert the privacy of donors to non-profits.

Matinees is Vice President of People United for Privacy Foundation.

We discussed the ongoing fight for keeping your giving choices

private last week.

I guess we'll start here.

AFPF V Banta, which was a decision that basically cracked down on state governments' ability

to demand donor lists from nonprofits. Now this is in keeping with the long-standing

view of the US Supreme Court since the late 50s that perhaps the state of Alabama should not

have access to the donor lists of the N-W-A-C-P.

So this is a longstanding tradition that culminated with the Banta decision recently, but as you say,

that is not the end of the story when it comes to donors being able to keep to nonprofits keeping their identities private.

That's exactly right, Caleb. For those who don't know,

Americans West Paradise Foundation, Bata, that case exists in the first place because states were already going against what the Supreme Court had said in the late 50s during the civil rights era in

NAACP v Alabama that nonprofit, memberless are private.

That's historically been the case, the United States.

What's happening now is that states are trying to violate that and that's been the case

for decades, if PFPBonte came about. What that case was was then Attorney General,

Kamala Harris in California, demanded that all nonprofits must turn over their donor lists in order to

fundraise in that state. And several organizations sued.

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