jun 8, 1925 - Gitlow vs New York

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In 1919 Benjamin Gitlow was arrested by New York police and charged with criminal anarchy for publishing the “Left Wing Manifesto”. This occurred during the time of the red scare where fear of communism and left ideals swept america. The supreme court ruled on this case on June 8, 1925, that the Constitution’s First Amendment protection of free speech, which states that the federal “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech,” applied to state governments. The decision was the first that the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause required state and federal governments to be held to the same standards in regulating speech.

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