132208P.pdf   08/25/2015  United States  v.  Amina Ali
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-2208
                          and No:  13-2209
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Murphy and Smith, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Defendants' claim that the trial judge 
   should have sua sponte recused himself based on a claim that he was biased 
   against defendants because of their religion or equated Islam with 
   terrorism is rejected; prohibiting defendants from challenging the 
   Secretary of State's designation of al Shabaab as a foreign terrorist 
   organization does not violate their due process rights; Congress's 
   delegation of this authority to the Secretary is not an unconstitutional 
   delegation of legislative power; constitutional challenge to the Foreign 
   Intelligence Surveillance Act rejected; FISA's in camera, ex parte 
   procedures do not violate defendants' due process rights; the district 
   court did not abuse its discretion in determining that it would not 
   disclose the FISA materials to defendants; FISA's probable cause standard 
   was met; no error in denying the motion to sever defendants' trials; 
   Bruton error argument rejected; evidentiary challenges rejected; 
   challenges to the government's closing argument rejected; no error in 
   imposing a terrorism enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 3A1.4; no error in 
   imposing an enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 2M5.3(b)(1)(E); the district 
   court properly considered the 3553(a) factors, and defendant Ali's 
   sentence of 240 months was not substantively unreasonable;the district 
   court did not commit any procedural error in calculating defendant 
   Hassan's sentencing range and her below-advisory-guidelines sentence of 
   120 months was not substantively unreasonable.