From today's decision in U.S. v. Romain by Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor, joined by Judges Jill Pryor and Andrew Brasher:
For years, members of the African People's Socialist Party followed the direction of Alexander Ionov of the Russian Federation-backed "Anti-Globalization Movement." Ionov funded trips for Party leadership to Moscow, sponsored multiple Party events, told the Party to publish pro-Russian statements, and appeared on Party media…. [A] jury found {three Party members and one former member} … guilty of conspiracy {to act as foreign agents without notifying the attorney general}….
The court held that the prosecution didn't violate the First Amendment:
