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As we head into Mother’s Day weekend, let’s raise a glass to all the moms and mother figures in our lives. Bartender Derek Shaffer of CW’s Gin Joint in downtown Tampa offers advice for planning the perfect Mother’s Day cocktail hour, whether you’ll be celebrating in person or across the miles. In our conversation, Derek shares ideas for treating Mom to a cocktail or mocktail hour that won’t leave her washing dishes on her special day. “The labor is going to have to be on your end,” Derek says, who adds that simplicity is the key to creating a cocktail. “You don’t want to o...

WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court in 1958 shielded the NAACP from being forced to disclose its membership list to Alabama state authorities, ruling the Constitution protects privacy of civil rights advocates and the “freedom of association, particularly when a group espouses dissident beliefs.” On Monday, the high court appeared ready to apply that landmark precedent to shield a libertarian group sponsored by the Koch family and a conservative religious group based in Chicago, both of which object to disclosing their major donors to the California attorney general. The IRS requires tax-...

Breaking: Supreme Court Hears Donor Privacy, Disclosure Arguments April 26, 2021 Oral arguments in a key donor disclosure case before the United States Supreme Court lasted 105 minutes on Monday morning, with questions from all nine justices and back-and-forth with representatives of the plaintiffs, the California Attorney General, and the federal government. Among the questions from the justices were whether on facial (on its face) challenges —  which would apply to all charities — versus as-applied challenges, impacting only the two petitioners in the case of Americans for Prosperity ...

Supreme Court Hears Donor Privacy, Disclosure Arguments April 26, 2021 Oral arguments in a key donor disclosure case before the United States Supreme Court lasted 105 minutes on Monday morning, with questions from all nine justices and back-and-forth with representatives of the plaintiffs, the California Attorney General, and the federal government. Among the questions from the justices were whether on facial (on its face) challenges —  which would apply to all charities — versus as-applied challenges, impacting only the two petitioners in the case of Americans for Prosperity Foundation...

The groups point to a landmark 1958 civil rights case in which the Supreme Court struck down a request by Alabama that the NAACP reveal its membership, a decision that required governments to weigh their need for information against the potential that its disclosure could make people nervous to support an advocacy group.  Throughout the oral argument Monday, conducted over the telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic, several of the justices pressed California's attorney on the state's need for the donor lists as well as past lapses in which the information, which is supposed to be...