Anonymity would have the further benefit of shielding the donors from boycotts and other forms of public pressure. This principle was upheld under the Fourteenth Amendment when the Supreme Court struck down a 1956 Alabama law that required the NAACP to turn over its membership lists to the state.3 Alabama had simply wanted to harass NAACP members, in violation of the right of association. Today, when conservative donors have been personally vilified by the president, or fired by their employers for their political beliefs, a rule of anonymity in political donations would protect the same
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