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View More NewsSome excerpts from a long opinion by Judge Emily Marks (M.D. Ala.) Friday in U.S. v. Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc.: This dispute concerns the Government’s—specifically, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama’s—decision to indict the Southern Poverty Law Center. The parties present diametrically opposed accounts of that decision. The SPLC contends that it is being vindictively prosecuted at the behest of various political actors—including the President of the United States—for engaging in speech protected under the First Amendment. To remedy this alleged constitutional wrong, the SPLC moves for dismissal of the indictment or, in the alternative,…
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In late November 2023, seven weeks after Hamas’s 7 October terrorist attacks, I attended a private roundtable at the Jordanian Embassy in London. There, Ambassador Manar Dabbas discussed the unfolding regional catastrophe with the composure of someone reviewing the previous night’s football scores. Some 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, had been murdered; around 250 had been taken hostage into Gaza; and pro-terror rhetoric was spreading across the world. But at this juncture, Dabbas emphasised the importance of de-escalation and the need for Israeli restraint. With respect to Jordan’s position, he remarked: “We sometimes joke among ourselves that we are…
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