Free Speech
Dec 13 2010, Marco Villa

In a June 2010 Supreme Court decision - Holder v. the Humanitarian Law Project - the court’s majority by a margin of 6-3 agreed with the government reasoning that any nonviolent speech or advocacy “coordinated with” or “under the direction of” a...

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