An appeal to defend constitutional liberties
By: Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties
Publisher: Citizens' Committee for Constitutional Liberties
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court; Communist Party of the United States of America
Notes: Cover title.

The June 5th decision of the Supreme Court was a razor-thin 5-4 margin (dissenting opinion from Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Hugo L. Black). The Court upheld the constitutionality of the McCarran Act, under which the Communist Party had been ordered to register and label itself, despite vigorous denials, as a foreign agent. The court also affirmed the membership provision of the Smith Act, making it a crime to be adjudged an active and knowing member of the Communist Party.