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The court's liberal bloc—Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor—had already displayed their skepticism towards the government's asserted ability to criminalize speech meant to assist a terrorist organization's legal activities. Sotomayor even suggested that "under the definition of this statute, teaching these members to play the harmonica would be unlawful."
Today at SCOTUS: Mohammed Atta & His Harmonica Quartet
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Could you explain how someone could be a member of one of these organizations without providing a service to the organization? Simply by lending one's name as a member; that might be regarded as a service. If you attended a meeting and you helped to arrange the chairs in advance or clean up afterwards, you would be providing a service to the organization.
This seems to be a slippery-slope that no one is noticing. Is this the smart Latina? Can Thomas even speak? This is still the Bush-Cheney court.
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