AI Consensus Solution
Reversed and remanded: The subpoena presents a justiciable Case under Article III, as it threatens direct burden on First Amendment-protected speech and assembly.
First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport
Neil Gorsuch
Reversed and remanded: The subpoena presents a justiciable Case under Article III, as it threatens direct burden on First Amendment-protected speech and assembly.
Does a religious nonprofit organization have Article III standing to challenge in federal court a state attorney general's subpoena demanding private donor identities, based on a claimed chill to First Amendment associational rights, absent any state court enforcement order?
Constitutional concerns with the original
- Uses modern 'injury-in-fact' and 'chill doctrine' terminology from post-1900 precedents (e.g., NAACP v. Alabama, 1958) rather than strict Article III 'Case' or 'Controversy' requiring actual dispute or imminent legal compulsion.
- Derives broad 'associational rights' protecting donor anonymity from First Amendment speech and assembly, extending beyond ratification-era focus on public assembly, petition, and speech free from prior restraints or compelled oaths.
Solution text
Operative provisions
Bipartisan rationale
Textualist approach honors Democratic traditions of robust Bill of Rights protections against government overreach (e.g., speech for reproductive advocates) and Republican emphasis on original limits curbing judicial activism while shielding religious minorities and pro-life donors from harassment.
Constitutional citations
- → Article III, Section 2
- → First Amendment
- → Tenth Amendment
- → Federalist No. 78 (judicial power confined to Cases)
Vote-count path
N/A — judicial holding.
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