Clarence Brandenburg, a leader of the racist Ku Klux Klan, was allowed to take out inflammatory rallies by the US Supreme Court in the landmark Brandenburg vs Ohio case—just one year after the tragic assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. The court ruled that so long as any speech is both unintended and unlikely to incite imminent lawless action, it must not be curtailed. The court held that the intent of violence, the probability of violence, as well as the imminence of violence, all three must be present. Mere abstract advocacy of violence, much less hate, cannot
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