Court Opinion

ID: 9425981
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:16:19.813422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:58.343745
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Me. Justice Douglas,
dissenting.
It is occasionally suggested that the First Amendment, applied to the States through the Fourteenth, Stromberg v. California, 283 U. S. 359 (1931), has a more restricted meaning than when applied to the Federal Government. See Roth v. United States, 354 U. S. 476, 500-503 (1957) (Harlan, J., concurring in judgment in Alberts v. California, 354 U. S. 476 (1957)). That view has never prevailed and is not at issue in this case as the prohibition of the First Amendment against abridgment of speech and press precisely fits this federal prosecution and, in my view, should bar it. That is the view I expressed in Roth, supra, at 508-514 (dissenting), a position from which I have not retreated.