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Who released the Pentagon Papers in spite of being taken to the Supreme Court by Nixon?
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Daniel Ellsberg
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Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers. He was a former military analyst who leaked the classified documents to the press in 1971. The leak exposed the U.S. government's deceptive practices in the Vietnam War and led to a legal battle with President Nixon's administration, which ultimately went to the Supreme Court.
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What supreme court cases burned the prior restraint?
One landmark Supreme Court case that established significant limitations on prior restraint is New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), often referred to as the "Pentagon Papers" case. In this case, the Court ruled that the government could not prevent the New York Times from publishing classified documents related to the Vietnam War. Another important case is Near v. Minnesota (1931), which held that a Minnesota law that allowed for prior restraint on publications deemed "malicious" or "scandalous" was unconstitutional and violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech and press.
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This was the famous Pentagon Papers case. The New York Times came into possession of a huge amount of documents about the war in Vietnam and sought to publish it. The US government sought to pevent the publication by threatening legal action because the Papers were still classified as secret so the Times sued to get a judgment confirming its right to print the Papers under the right of freedom of the press. The US Supreme Court ruled that the the government could not restrain the Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers prior to publication. As it turned out, much of the Pentagon Papers contained little true classified information. They were more of a political embarassment than publication of secrets.
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