Another Congressional assault on free speech
Do people have to go to SCOTUS to get their free speech rights upheld?
"The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Irish Republican Army, two of history’s most notorious terrorist groups, have never appeared on the State Department’s List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations. By the time the list was first compiled in 1997, both groups were deemed to be moving away from violence and toward a peaceful resolution of their grievances.
Ralph Fertig, president of the Humanitarian Law Project, wants to encourage a similar change within the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a violent separatist group in Turkey.
But he worries that doing so will expose him to prosecution for providing ‘material support’ to a terrorist organization, a crime Congress has defined so broadly that it includes a great deal of speech protected by the First Amendment.”
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Unfortunately, YES, people often have to go all the way to the SCOTUS to get their basic rights protected.
When Lincoln suspended habeus corpus during the Civil War, the action was eventually overturned. It's the nature of our balanced government. The Legislature or Executive over-reaches, and the SCOTUS pulls them back.
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