What is Freedom of the Press?
In Lovell v. Griffin (1938), Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote
for a unanimous Supreme Court: “The liberty of the press is not confined
to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and
leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of
liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our own history
abundantly attest. The press in its connotation comprehends every sort
of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.” . . .
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