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15 Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, 130 S. Ct. 2705 (2010). For the Supreme Courtdecision, see https://ccrjustice.org/holder-v-humanitarian-law-project. See also MichaelDeutsch, “Justice Department Prepares for Expansion of Law Prohibiting ‘MaterialSupport’ for Terrorism,” Information Clearing House, November 14, 2010,http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26815.htm. 16 See Hedges v. Obama, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedges_v._Obama. JournalistChris Hedges and others sued the Obama Administration and Congress in January 2012over the provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012,claiming that, among other issues, “...the vagueness of critical terms in the NDAA couldbe interpreted by the federal government in a way that authorizes [it] to label journalistsand political activists who interview or support outspoken critics of the Obamaadministration's policies as ‘covered persons,’ meaning that they have given ‘substantialsupport’ to terrorists or other ‘associated groups.’” In July 2013, the Second CircuitCourt of Appeals overturned a district court ruling for the plaintiffs, saying that theplaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the NDAA.17 The government has even suggested that a lawyer would be guilty of material supportfor terrorism for filing a brief on behalf of a DTO asking that the organization beremoved from the terrorist list. During oral argument in Holder v. Humanitarian LawProject in February 2010, then-Solicitor General Kagan “...talked herself into sometrouble in arguing that the law might make it a criminal act for a blacklisted group evento hire a lawyer to put its views before a U.S. court...” See Lyle Denniston, “Analysis:Anti-terrorism case not an easy one,” SCOTUSblog, February 23, 2010,http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/02/analysis-anti-terrorism-case-not-an-easy-one/18 See the Tarek Mehanna case in Appendix B.19 See, for example, Ehsanul “Shifa” Sadequee, Ziyad Yaghi, and Javed Iqbal inAppendix B. See also Karin Friedemann, “CMU Prisoner Shifa Sadequee’s SisterSpeaks to TMO,” The Muslim Observer, June 27, 2013,http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/?p=13450. Regarding Javed Iqbal, see “US jailsman over Hezbollah channel,” Aljazeera, April 29, 2009,http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/2009423233919457969.html20 Cases in which defendants were convicted (or charged) primarily on free speechcharges include Tarek Mehanna, the Holy Land Foundation, Ali Al-Timimi, Ehsanul“Shifa” Sadequee, Javed Iqbal, and Sami Al-Arian. The latter was acquitted of thecharges but was later charged with refusing to testify before a grand jury about the verycharges for which he was found not guilty. A motion to dismiss this obvious perjury46