Nonprofits helped organize the pro-Trump rally before the Capitol siege – but they probably won't su
It's unclear whether Women for America First, the 'social welfare group' that obtained a permit for the pro-Trump rally that let to a siege on the Capitol, could be held liable.
Editor’s note: Some of the money used to organize the Jan. 6 pro-Trump “March to Save America” came from social welfare groups. One of them, Women for America First, notably obtained a permit from the National Park Service for the rally – which preceded an assault on the Capitol in which at least five people died. The Conversation U.S. asked nonprofit law scholar Ellen Aprill, who served in the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy in the late 1980s, about possible ramifications for these nonprofits.
Can social welfare groups legally fund big protests?
Social welfare groups, also known by the part of the tax code regulating them – section 501(
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