The American Conservative
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New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the NRA over alleged financial mismanagement.
Julian Zelizer : The legal mechanism the attorney general is using could be used on any objectionable civil society group, even churches.
The core claim against the NRA relates to the group’s supposed failure to engage in “proper administration,” which allows the State to step in to prevent unlawful diversion of charitable funds.
Using New York’s financial services regulations, Vullo followed up by issuing multi-million-dollar fines to groups which did business with the NRA . The Supreme Court is now hearing the case and is widely expected to rule this conduct was unconstitutionally threatening. The NRA needs to regain the trust of its members and is taking important steps to do so. Nevertheless, this should not obscure nor justify the State of New York’s selective, politically-motivated prosecution..
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