March 25th, 2024
Advancing American Freedom led an amicus brief with over 20 other amici in No on E v. Chiu, in which a San Francisco political organization is challenging San Francisco’s unconstitutional and un-American disclosure law that requires certain political speakers to disclose not only their immediate donors, but in some cases, their donor’s donors.
“Anonymous speech and association are American traditions that pre-exist the Founding, as demonstrated by the pseudonymous publication of the Federalist and Anti-federalist papers,” said J. Marc Wheat, AAF General Counsel. “The phenomenon of ‘cancel culture’ is a plague on our society today, the consequences of which are exacerbated by laws like San Francisco’s disclosure law. The Supreme Court has the opportunity to make clear that the rights to Free Speech and Association protected by the First Amendment include the right to exercise those rights anonymously without fear of reprisal.”
You can read the full amicus brief here.
