LAD # 26 Schenk v. United States

Supreme Court decision concerning whether the First Amendment against the draft of WWI was legal. He called the draft involuntary solitude of the Thirteenth Amendment went against the draft. They described the draft as morally wrong. He was charged with conspiracy because he violated the Espionage Act because he tried to cause insubordination in the military and obstructed the recruitment. It was said that the criminal constitution was constitutional. It said that 1st amendment didn’t protect speech encouraging insubordination since it was wartime. Wartime permits greater restrictions on the freedom of speech similar to a bomb threat. It said that the stringy protection of freedom of speech would not protect a man that tried to cause panic. He was founded guilty and put into jail