The issue focused on the public need to "stake a claim" in their government, and not an official law.

Cantor's decision is the first time a court has found that the individual rights of political groups are protected by the First Amendment, which does not allow for federal laws to abridge them.

A section of the group's tax-exempt application was called a "one-time statement" and it said: "It is our policy to only use our tax-exempt status