{"id":8962,"date":"2010-04-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/04\/10\/a-first-amendment-test-which-concers-diasporic-hindus\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T12:00:00","slug":"a-first-amendment-test-which-concers-diasporic-hindus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/04\/10\/a-first-amendment-test-which-concers-diasporic-hindus\/","title":{"rendered":"A First Amendment Test Which Concers Diasporic Hindus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2010\/02\/next-major-first-amendment-test\/\">www.scotusblog.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, February 2010: On February 23 the Supreme Court heard one hour of oral argument in two consolidated cases, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project et al. (08-1498), and Humanitarian Law Project et al. v. Holder (09-89). <\/p>\n<p>For the past twelve years, Americans who are descendants or supporters of the Tamil people, a linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia with two thousand years of history, have been locked in a courthouse battle with the U.S. government. As the case reaches the Supreme Court, it shapes up as the next major test of the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court examines whether Congress acted unconstitutionally in making it a crime to provide a wide range of support to organizations that the government has blacklisted under anti-terrorism laws passed in 1996, 2001, and 2004. The review of the 2001 provisions brings before the Court, for the first time, the USA Patriot Act &#8212; the sweeping law passed by Congress six weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks.<\/p>\n<p>From the beginning, and still, the legal adversaries have proceeded on totally contradictory perceptions: the Tamil descendants insisting that they only want to provide completely benign aid to a humanitarian cause and, indeed, to encourage non-violence; while the government countered that the groups Tamils want to aid are deeply involved in widespread terrorist violence in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>(A much more thorough analysis exists at the source.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.scotusblog.com UNITED STATES, February 2010: On February 23 the Supreme Court heard one hour of oral argument in two,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}