Participant Info
- Case
- United States v. Lovett
- Citation
- 328 US 303
- Type
- Majority
- Year
- 1946
- Description
For a Court majority, Black held in United States v. Lovett that the House Un-American Activities Committee’s legislation to punish named individuals violates the US Constitution. Black writes: “When our Constitution and Bill of Rights were written, our ancestors had ample reason to know that legislative trials and punishments were too dangerous to liberty to exist in the nation of free men they envisioned.”
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