{"id":19946,"date":"2010-06-22T04:20:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=19946"},"modified":"2013-10-13T00:34:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T21:34:37","slug":"what-counts-as-abetting-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/06\/22\/what-counts-as-abetting-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"What Counts as Abetting Terrorists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its most significant ruling on free speech rights in terrorism cases, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a crime to provide \u201cmaterial support\u201d to foreign terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/06\/21\/opinion\/21rfd-image\/21rfd-image-custom2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The case, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, was brought by an American organization that sought to teach members of the Kurdish Workers\u2019 Party (known as the P.K.K.) how to resolve disputes under international law and engage in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds in Turkey. The P.K.K. has been designated a foreign terrorist group by the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>In the 6-3 majority opinion, Chief Justice John Robers wrote that barring such \u201cexpert advice or assistance\u201d and \u201cservice\u201d did not violate the First Amendment, \u201ceven if the supporters meant to promote only the groups\u2019 nonviolent ends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What are the implications for the free speech and association rights of Americans?<\/p>\n<p>David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center<\/p>\n<p>Andrew C. McCarthy, legal affairs editor at National Review<\/p>\n<p>Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Law School<\/p>\n<p>Stephen I. Vladeck, American University Washington College of Law<\/p>\n<p>Robert Chesney, University of Texas School of Law<\/p>\n<p>Diane Marie Amann, law professor, University of California, Davis<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/21\/what-counts-as-abetting-terrorists\/\">Read Full Story &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its most significant ruling on free speech rights in terrorism cases, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a crime to provide \u201cmaterial support\u201d to foreign terrorist groups. The case, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, was brought by an American organization that sought to teach members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[1280],"class_list":["post-19946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-pkk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}