Kamala Harris, Dem Rising Star, Goes for the Jugular on Conservative Nonprofits

From the American Thinker Blog:

The Supreme Court is being asked to determine whether California’s ambitious Attorney General and candidate for U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris, has violated the First Amendment and federal law protecting confidential tax return information.
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Nonprofit organizations are some of the most effective critics of government, other powerful institutions -- and ambitious politicians -- making them especially vulnerable to the desire to bully and censor them. The Lois Lerner/IRS scandal is a good example.

Harris decided to push the limits by telling charities that they may not solicit contributions unless they first file a list of their top donors, which is an extortionate prior restraint on speech. Those donors are found on a confidential “Schedule B” to the tax returns filed by nonprofits with the IRS.

Federal law protects confidential tax return information, and even provides civil and criminal penalties against federal and state officials who violate the confidentiality law.  The IRS was ordered to pay the National Organization for Marriage for disclosing that organization’s Schedule B donor information to hostile blogs.

As or even more importantly, what Harris is doing flies in the face of the 1958 landmark Supreme Court decision in NAACP v. Alabama. That case held that membership lists are protected by the First Amendment from demands of states and their attorneys general.

The CEO of Mozilla was driven from his position when news of his personal support for Prop. 8 was released. The Left has been using "lawfare" against their political opponents.

If you can't beat them at the ballot box, find a sympathetic judge and convince one judge, not the electorate.

Can you name one liberal policy, before Obamacare, that succeeded by using the legislative Process?

Abortion?

Busing?