The Free Speech Example of Cohen v. California

A profane example of a protest of the draft in the Vietnam era led to an influential opinion by one of the unsung heroes of the Supreme Court’s long struggle to give definition and reality to the constitutional promise of the First Amendment. Justice John Harlan was the great conservative dissenter of the Warren Court, but professor Rick Tepker argues the nation owes him a great debt for his careful judicial craftsmanship.

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Justice Harlan is an American hero

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