A nonprofit U.S. group seeking democratic reforms in China asked the Supreme Court on March 1 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-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,” the group said in its brief. “For our client and its supporters, maintaining …