Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Center for Security Policy, and Committee on the Present Danger
Amici Curiae
Andrew G. McBride, Counsel of Record The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Center for Security Policy, and the Committee on the Present Danger are nonprofit organizations dedicated to promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that drive terrorism. Andrew G. McBride is a partner with the law firm Wiley Rein, where he cochairs the appellate practice. He received his law degree from Stanford University in 1987. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on October 9, 2007. Petitioners in theseconsolidated cases frame the question before…
