Courtney E. Martin on how Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project restricts aid and development groups — and leaves all of us more vulnerable to terrorism:
According to the Supreme Court, many of our world’s most esteemed Nobel Peace Prize winners just might be criminals. Or at least that’s what it seems when one looks at the broad language in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. Decided a week ago today, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law that makes it a crime to provide “material support” to any foreign organization that the government designates a terrorist group.