{"id":1889,"date":"2010-06-21T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2010-06-21T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:12:47","slug":"constitutional-disaster-of-biblical-proportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/constitutional-disaster-of-biblical-proportions\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court&#8217;s Latest Constitutional Disaster of Biblical Proportions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s 6-3 decision upholding a federal law banning &#8220;material support&#8221; to terrorist organizations is a disaster for preserving free speech or limiting federal power.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the Obama administration proudly championed repression, and the court agreed with the Obama team.<\/p>\n<p>Raw Story has a good collection of quotes bashing the decision <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/rs\/2010\/0621\/supreme-court-upholds-material-support-law\/\"><strong>here.<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Cole, the Georgetown law prof who has eloquently fought this case for many years, has thoughtful comments<a href=\"http:\/\/roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/21\/what-counts-as-abetting-terrorists\/\"><strong> here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly, the purpose of the Supreme Court seems to be simply to rubberstamp government crimes. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll write more about this in the next few days, but figured I should start my swearing now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s 6-3 decision upholding a federal law banning &#8220;material support&#8221; to terrorist organizations is a disaster for preserving free speech or limiting federal power. Once again, the Obama administration proudly championed repression, and the court agreed with the Obama team. Raw Story has a good collection of quotes bashing the decision here. David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[659,22,10,677,656,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-1889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bush","9":"tag-democracy","10":"tag-dictatorship"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court&#039;s Latest Constitutional Disaster of Biblical Proportions - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/constitutional-disaster-of-biblical-proportions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court&#039;s Latest Constitutional Disaster of Biblical Proportions - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Supreme Court&#8217;s 6-3 decision upholding a federal law banning &#8220;material support&#8221; to terrorist organizations is a disaster for preserving free speech or limiting federal power. 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