Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Free Speech in Schools? In December of 1965 in Des Moines, Iowa, Mary Beth Tinker, her brother, Christopher Ekhardt, and others planned an organized protest […]
Prior Restraint
FRQ #3, SCOTUS Comparison. Jay Near was the publisher of a newspaper in Minneapolis in the late 1920s called The Saturday Press. In it […]
New York Times v. United States (1971)
Supreme Court Case. Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon analyst, became disillusioned with the war in Vietnam and released a massive report known as the Pentagon […]
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Clear and Present Danger. The first time the Supreme Court examined a federal conviction on a free speech claim was in Schenck v. United States […]
White Primary
FRQ #3, SCOTUS Comparison. Decades ago, African Americans were barred from participation in primary elections, creating the so-called white primary. During the Democrats’ hold […]