Today, we discuss Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919), the application of the Espionage Act, sedition, and the First Amendment. In this case, a group of self-professed pro-communist demonstrators set forth pamphlets expressing views the Court found to undermine the U.S. war effort in World War I. Sedition was the charge, and sedition was conviction, though Holms did advance the marketplace of ideas in his dissent. And don't forget strict intent; we can't forget strict intent.
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