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If you read the article, it refers to using a long discredited restriction on free speech from WW1. This refers to the law used by President Wilson to put peopl
by rnk 4y ago
If you read the article, it refers to using a long discredited restriction on free speech from WW1. This refers to the law used by President Wilson to put people arguing against the war into jail. That this kind of law has survived this long without being overturned by the US Supreme Court is itself a terrible crime. Qualified Immunity imho is just the latest way to give the police unlimited power to abuse civil rights.
- coldacid 4y ago/Schenck/ and /Abrams/ were overturned via the Brandenburg v. Ohio decision of the Supreme Court of the US in 1969.
- rnk 4y agoOh, I didn't know that. Thanks for mentioning it! https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/189/brandenburg-v-ohio https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/189/brandenburg-v-o.... I would have expected it to have been Vietnam War resistance, instead of civil rights of KKK type speech.