Pictured is Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who ruled in the case that the danger posed during wartime justified the restrictions on First Amendment rights to freedom of speech placed by the Espionage Act. ![]() Schenck was charged with violating the Espionage Act of 1917 when he circulated a flyer that opposed the draft.
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