Do You Really Want to Take Revenge Against the Jews?

Holmes' views would be codified in American law 50 years later. In 1969 Brandenburg v Ohio case, Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a KKK leader who had led a rally of armed men. Justice William Brennan wrote: 'The constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a state to ferve it or prescribe advocacy ... except where an advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action'