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To: lbryce

The Espionage Act is a highly suspect piece of Woodrow Wilson legislation from World War I. I can’t imagine a judiciary steeped in years of liberal education with the horror stories of persecuted Anarchists would ever find it to be Constitutional.


20 posted on 11/30/2010 11:14:13 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The Espionage Act is a highly suspect piece of Woodrow Wilson legislation from World War I. I can’t imagine a judiciary steeped in years of liberal education with the horror stories of persecuted Anarchists would ever find it to be Constitutional.

It was found Constitutional (unanimously!) shortly after it was enacted.

Subsequent decisions have cast doubt on it, but none overruled it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917#The_Act_in_the_courts

23 posted on 11/30/2010 11:17:24 AM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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