The Anti-Defamation League is urging the Supreme Court to uphold an anti-terrorism law prohibiting material support or resources to foreign terrorist organizations.
The ADL submitted an amicus brief to the court in Holder, et al. v. Humanitarian Law Project, et al. which argues that all activities of terrorist organizations are inextricably linked, and thus a prohibition on material support of such organizations in constitutional.
An appeals court has ruled that the terms "training," "expert advice or assistance" and "services" in the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 are unconstitutionally vague.
"There is no inalienable right to provide resources to a foreign terrorist organization," said ADL national director Abraham Foxman in a statement. "Those that knowingly do so are facilitating terrorism and must be held accountable.”
The full brief is available here. The ADL’s full press release is after the jump:[[READMORE]]
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today urged the nation’s highest court to uphold laws prohibiting the supply of material support or resources to foreign terrorist organizations.
The League submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Holder, et al. v. Humanitarian Law Project, et al. arguing that all activities of terrorist organizations are inextricably linked, and that a prohibition on material support for these organizations is constitutional.
“Any material support lent to terrorist organizations — whether in the form of monetary funding or expert training — helps enable those groups to maximize their assets and potentially grants them undeserved legitimacy and credibility,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. “There is no inalienable right to provide resources to a foreign terrorist organization. Those that knowingly do so are facilitating terrorism and must be held accountable.”
Holder, et al. v. Humanitarian Law Project, et al. analyzes whether prohibitions in the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 on providing “training,” “expert advice or assistance” and/or “service” to foreign terrorist organizations, are unconstitutionally vague.
ADL’s friend-of-the-court brief was prepared by Chadbourne & Parke LLP, and is available here.
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