{"id":2653,"date":"2024-09-17T21:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/gop-senators-urge-judiciary-to-scrap-proposal-for-greater-amicus-funding-disclosure\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T21:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:08:22","slug":"gop-senators-urge-judiciary-to-scrap-proposal-for-greater-amicus-funding-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/gop-senators-urge-judiciary-to-scrap-proposal-for-greater-amicus-funding-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senators Urge Judiciary to Scrap Proposal for Greater Amicus Funding Disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Three Republican U.S. senators have encouraged First Amendment challenges if the federal judiciary adopts a proposed rule that would require amicus filers to more broadly disclose financial ties to parties and non-parties.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court \u201chas long protected those who associate for speech purposes from compelled disclosure of those associations, subjecting any such disclosures to \u2018exacting scrutiny,\u2019\u201d\u00a0Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sens. John Thune of South Dakota and John Cornyn of Texas wrote in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1zMQm8sPT_eZoMrBk06YfYYqVU1YDE3dR\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a letter<\/a>\u00a0Monday to the judiciary\u2019s Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Republican U.S. senators have encouraged First Amendment challenges if the federal judiciary adopts a proposed rule that would require amicus filers to more broadly disclose financial ties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3189,3148,2166,1397,3460,273,895,3459,3458,2081],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-amicus","tag-disclosure","tag-funding","tag-gop","tag-greater","tag-judiciary","tag-proposal","tag-scrap","tag-senators","tag-urge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}