Arizona Supreme Court weighs fate of voter-approved 'dark money' disclosure law

A voter-approved anti-dark-money law faced what could be its final hurdle Thursday after years of legal victories against opponents seeking to declare it unconstitutional, but its final fate will be up to the Arizona Supreme Court.

Since voters in 2022 overwhelmingly approved Proposition 211, the Voters Right to Know Act, proponents of the anonymous campaign spending that has transformed American elections over the past 15 years have challenged its constitutionality. The law’s deep-pocketed conservative opponents have argued that forcing disclosure of the source of political spending limits the free speech of wealthy people who want to influence voters, but don’t want those voters to know who is trying to persuade them.

On Thursday, those same critics made those same arguments before the Arizona Supreme Court.

The voter-approved law requires the disclosure of any “original source” of contributions greater than $5,000 if the money is used to pay for media expenditures of more than $50,000 in a statewide election or $25,000 in a local election.



https://azmirror.com/2025/09/11/arizona-supreme-court-weighs-fate-of-voter-approved-dark-money-disclosure-law/