Sentence examples for criminalizing material from inspiring English sources

Federal prosecutors have an imposing array of weapons against suspected terrorists, including laws criminalizing "material support" for terrorism.

The Senate rejected two of the most severe provisions of the House's December legislation: criminalizing material assistance to illegal immigrants by religious organizations or humanitarian groups, and making undocumented status a felony.

The current laws that criminalize material support for terrorism are extremely broad, and it is hard to imagine any real terrorist who would not fall within their reach.

The law will criminalize providing "financial, material, consultative, or other assistance" to foreign or international organizations if the court rules that these activities are damaging to Russia's security (the current wording is "international security," but the word "international" will be dropped to make the law easier to apply).

For example, the task force found no evidence that some detainees had "participated in a specific terrorist plot" or that they had acted to support Al Qaeda after October 2001, when laws criminalizing the general provision of material support to a terrorist group were extended to apply to foreigners overseas.

When John C. Calhoun introduced legislation criminalizing the mailing of such materials, Davis spoke out against it, pointing out that it would effectively act as an unconstitutional gag on people seeking to speak out against slavery.

The Home Office says the law will only apply to those found to repeatedly view online terrorist material to try to avoid criminalizing those who click a link out of curiosity or accidentally.

All of this is putting to one side the problems with the notion of criminalizing something as broad and vague as "material support" itself.

Many activists, including former president Jimmy Carter, think that the US government's definition of "material support" for terrorism is so broad it risks criminalizing legitimate work to address poverty and promote peace.

In response, Congress passed the narrower Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act into law that same year, which criminalized interstate commerce of material depicting animal torture.

One of America's foremost constitutional scholars, Prof. David Cole of the Georgetown University Law Center, argues that the "material support principle is 'guilt by association' in 21st-century garb, and presents all of the same problems that criminalizing membership and association did during the Cold War".