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Supreme Court upholds convictions in Abrams v. United States

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed convictions under the Espionage Act for defendants who distributed leaflets urging strikes and opposition to U.S. intervention in Russia.

The decision sustained broad wartime restrictions on dissent while Justice Holmes’s famous dissent articulated the 'marketplace of ideas' standard that later shaped American free‑speech doctrine.

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