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United States v. O'Brien

5-4

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Introduction

5 to 4 is a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. This week's case, United States v. O'Brien, was a case from 1968 about free speech. The events in this case took place against the backdrop of resistance to the U.S.'s escalating involvement in the Vietnam War. Seven young and earnest protesters burned draft cards on the steps of a Boston courthouse. An act of protest that had been made illegal in a federal law past the year before.

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