Free Speech, Meet Material Support Laws
by Nabiha | February 2, 2010 | KLAMP | Comments Off
The ABA Journal discusses what it calls “the U.S. Supreme Court’s first major test of whether the war on terrorism conflicts with the free speech principles of the First Amendment.” (…what took y’all so long?!)
“I am opposed to violence of all sorts. It seems crazy to me that I could go to jail for trying to persuade people to use nonviolent means to achieve their rights,” says Fertig, now 79 and president of the Los Angeles-based Humanitarian Law Project, a nonprofit human rights organization begun in 1985. Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (click for briefs) is scheduled for oral argument on Feb. 23.
Stay tuned!



