California’s Democratic attorney general says she can be trusted to keep secret the names and addresses of donors to a nonprofit started by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.
Still, Kamala Harris has a fight on her hands trying to get the brothers’ Americans for Prosperity Foundation to give her access to the same confidential data it already provides to the Internal Revenue Service.
Harris has been sparring since last year with the foundation, which claims its contributors may face “grotesque threats” if their identities are revealed. The two sides faced off Wednesday before a federal appeals court in Pasadena, California, over whether the foundation will have to supply the information while the court battle continues.