Press release: “The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) succeeded in having two key provisions of a Bush administration anti-terrorism initiative ruled unconstitutional. Los Angeles U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Collins ruled in Humanitarian Law Project v. Department of Treasury that the law, an Executive Order issued shortly after 9/11 and used to blacklist hundreds of individuals and organizations as “specially designated global terrorists” and freeze their assets, is unconstitutionally vague and imposes guilt by association. The Order gives the President unfettered discretion to proscribe “specially designated global terrorists” without any criteria whatsoever. And the Order further empowers the Secretary of Treasury to designate individuals and groups for merely being “otherwise associated” with another listed individual or entity.”