Supreme Court Comic Strip
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- KKK leader Clarence Brandenburg held a meeting in which he made racist remarks and slurs against African-Americans and Jewish people, as well as calls to action against the government.
- We must fight the government who are oppressing us!
- 1964
- Brandenburg was arrested for advocating violence under an Ohio state law.
- This law is outdated
- Supreme Court
- Ohio State Police
- 1968
- Brandenburg was convicted by a low-level state court and sentenced to one to ten tears in prison, as well as a $1,000 fine (around $8,000 today).
- Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County,
- Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County
- Brandenburg was rejected in the Ohio court of appeals, and the Ohio supreme court declined his case
- There is no constitutional question...
- The court, in an eight-to-one decision, overturned Brandenburg's conviction on the grounds that he could not be punished if he was not directly inciting violence.
- Brandenburg was advocating an idea, not inciting violence.
- We should protest that new rule!
- The standard set in Brandenburg v. Ohio was that the law may not punish speech unless it directly calls for violence.
- Go and punch that person
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