This is the Catery Daily podcast for Monday, December 2nd, 2024.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Tax benefits for giving to the ideas and causes you care about may be well established,

but the threats to that kind of giving persist.

With the election in the rearview mirror, new threats have even emerged.

Spoke with Luke Waka of People United for Privacy and Peter Lipsid of Donors Trust about some

elements of the ongoing threats to donor privacy and tax benefits to charitable giving.

We spoke in August.

It has been sort of an interesting couple of years for people who are very concerned about private philanthropic giving.

We had the big case that sort of, we thought, cleared the way for a lot more privacy for people who give money to ideas and causes that they believe in,

AFPFV Banta.

But let's go back in time just a little bit before that case.

This was something that Kamala Harris was actively involved in in terms of compelling private,

nonprofit groups that do business in or receive support from Californians to have to submit

to handing over a list of donors to the state government.

So if either of you want to give me a sense of what that history is, I would appreciate it.

Kamala Harris, as Attorney General, California overs oversaw an aggressive campaign to force non-profits,

charities to hand over their donor list to the state government. This ran directly in the face of

a unanimous Supreme Court ruling from the 1950s, the civil rights era, where Jim Crow government

in the state of Alabama had

attempted to force the endable ACP to hand over a list of its members. And the Supreme Court,

after many years of litigation, unanimously ruled that that violated their First Amendment rights,

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