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The freedom of the press is also a part of the First Amendment. It states that citizens have the right to publish and disperse information and opinions without the censorship of the government.
The Pentagon Papers
Freedom of the press has been greatly disputed over the years. An example of this is during the 1971 Pentagon Papers scandal. The Pentagon Papers were a secret report of American involvement in Vietnam that was leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, a reporter at the NY Times.
That lead to the Supreme Court Case of New York Times v. United States (1971) where the government tried to stop the publication of the Pentagon Papers by stating that the release violated the Espionage Act of 1917 and that they had the power to use prior restraint (the suppression of harmful information).
The Supreme Court ruled that the newspaper could publish the papers without prior restraint because their publishing did not lead to the “inevitable, direct, and immediate event imperiling the safety of American forces.”
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Required Supreme Court Cases
- Some Background
- Why Do I Need to Know These?
- What Are The Required Cases?
- Why These Cases?
- 4 Key Points for Each Case
- Cases Involving Federalism
- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
- United States v. Lopez (1995)
- Cases Involving the First Amendment
- Engel v. Vitale (1962)
- Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)
- New York Times Co v. United States (1971)
- Schenck v. United States (1919)
- Cases Involving Selective Incorporation
- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
- Roe v. Wade (1973)
- McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
- Cases Involving the Equal Protection Clause
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Cases Involving Federal Policy
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
- Cases Involving Districting & Representation
- Baker v. Carr (1962)
- Shaw v. Reno (1993)
- Cases Involving Judicial Review
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
🏛 Unit 1: Foundations of American Democracy
⚖️ Unit 2: Interactions Among Branches of Government
✊ Unit 3: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
🐘 Unit 4: American Political Ideologies and Beliefs
🗳 Unit 5: Political Participation
🧐 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
✍️ Free Response Questions (FRQ)
✏️ Blogs
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