A non-profit U.S. group seeking democratic reforms in China asked the Supreme Court Monday to protect the identities of its members and donors because actions by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could have lethal consequences. “The liberties that the First Amendment expressly guarantees depend on a vigorous protection of the auxiliary freedom of association. Blanket donor-disclosure regimes like California’s create an intolerable risk of exposure and thus severely abridge that freedom,” First Liberty Institute FLI) attorneys representing Washington, D.C.-based Citizen Power Initiatives of China told the High Court in an amicus curiae brief made available to The Epoch Times. “Exposure of a group’s members and donors can subject them to significant reprisals by the public and therefore dissuade further membership and donations, a fact that this Court has acknowledged when marking the freedom of association’s contours,” group said in its brief. “For our client and its supporters, maintaining privacy is …