William Fisher

In the wake of a Supreme Court decision upholding a law making it a crime to provide any "material support" to an organisation designated as a "terrorist" by the US government, Jimmy Carter charged that the law "actually threatens our work and the work of many other peacemaking organisation".

The controversy over Arizona's new immigration law heated up further Monday when a powerful coalition of civil rights and immigration advocates asked a U.S. federal court to find the new law unconstitutional and issue an injunction against its taking effect.