There is tension in the law between robust protections for speech, particularly speech about issues of public import, and the ever-increasing donor disclosure demands under campaign finance laws. NTUF’s Taxpayer Defense Center, joined by People United For Privacy, filed an amici curiae (“friends of the court”) brief to urge the Supreme Court to take the Rio Grande Foundation’s challenge to New Mexico’s burdensome and dangerous donor disclosure laws.
New Mexico treats speech about ballot issues the same as speech about political candidates. A group merely speaking about a ballot issue close-in-time to the election would have to register as a political
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