Federal Judge deems indefinite detention a violation of 1st Amendment
Well cut my tail off and call me BOB, finally a judge has stepped up and voiced an opinion that has been so silent and so restrained. According to Larry Neumeister of the Associated Press in his article titled Federal judge: Terror law violates 1st Amendment “a judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists, saying it left journalists, scholars and political activists facing the prospect of indefinite detention for exercising First Amendment rights. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan said in a written ruling that a single page of the law has a "chilling impact on First Amendment rights." She cited testimony by journalists that they feared their association with certain individuals overseas could result in their arrest because a provision of the law subjects to indefinite detention anyone who "substantially" or "directly"...