MSLF Senior Attorney Tyler Martinez made the following comment today in response to oral arguments in Americans for Prosperity v. California which seemed to reflect a good deal of skepticism among the justices about California’s longstanding desire to obliterate donor privacy protections, which were once spearheaded by Vice President Kamala Harris
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