The Anti-Defamation League filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging a federal appeals court to uphold the constitutionality of 1996 anti-terrorism legislation. The case reached the appeals stage after a federal judge in Los Angeles earlier this year rejected a lawsuit filed by humanitarian activists who argued that the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act is unconstitutional because it criminalizes fund raising for the “lawful and nonviolent activities” of foreign terrorist organizations. The ADL argued in its brief that “the knowing contribution of material support to foreign terrorist organizations is inextricably intertwined with violence.”
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