Peace Groups Slam High Court Ruling On 'Terror Support'
Arab American News, The › July 13, 2010
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NEW YORK - In the wake of Monday's Supreme Court decision upholding a law making it a crime to provide any "material support" to an organization designated as "terrorist" by the U.S. government, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter charged that the law "actually threatens our work and the work of many other peacemaking organizations that must interact directly with groups that have engaged in violence."
The court held that the statute's prohibitions on "expert advice," "training," "service" and "personnel" were not vague, and did not violate speech or associational rights as applied to plaintiffs' intended activities.The plaintiffs' lead lawyer, Georgetown Law Center's David Cole, a widely respected constitutional scholar, sees the "material support" paradigm of "preemptively weeding out threats to national security, guilt by association" resurrected from the McCarthy era.See the full content of this document
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Peace Groups Slam High Court Ruling On 'Terror Support'
NEW YORK - In the wake of Monday's Supreme Court decision upholding a law making it a crime to provide any "material support" to an organization designated as "terrorist" by the U.S. government, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter charged that the law "actually threatens our work a...
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