Participant Info
- Case
- American Communications Assn v. Douds
- Citation
- 339 US 382
- Type
- Dissenting
- Year
- 1950
- Description
In a dissent to the Court’s opinion in American Communications Association v. Douds, Black decries the government’s approval of oaths affirming that an employee was not a member of the Communist Party. He wrote: “Like anyone else, individual Communists who commit overt acts in violation of valid laws can and should be punished. But the postulate of the First Amendment is that our free institutions can be maintained without proscribing or penalizing political belief, speech, press, assembly, or party affiliation.”
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