United States v. Al-Arian

How courts have described this case

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• construing § 2339B as requiring proof of specific intent to further illegal activity because less stringent interpretation would raise constitutional questions regarding freedom of association and “due process requirements of personal guilt”
• construing section 2339B to require that provider of material support have specific intent to further terrorist organization’s illegal activities in order to avoid constitutional difficulty of imposing guilt by association

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).