In this episode of Lest We Forget Historical, host Lillian Cauldwell discusses recent comments made by potential Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He suggested that critics of the Supreme Court should be jailed for disagreeing with the Justices’ decisions. This is not unprecedented; individuals have been imprisoned for expressing their views throughout history. For instance, near the end of World War I, union leader Eugene Debs was sentenced to 10 years for a speech against the draft, a conviction upheld by the Supreme Court. In 1951, during Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist crusades, the Supreme Court supported such actions by affirming the convictions of those who attempted to form a Communist Party in the U.S. It was only in the 1960s that the Court issued decisions protecting political activists and the freedom of the press. These protections could vanish if the Court’s current majority favoring free speech changes.
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If Donald Trump wins, the First Amendment is in grave danger | Vox by Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.
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