🧵 54 years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in The New York Times Co. v. United States, and defended the First Amendment right of free press against prior restraint by the government.

1971 | Supreme Court Allows Publication of Pentagon Papers (Published 2016)

A top-secret history of the Vietnam War led to a historic victory for freedom of the press — though The Times’s publisher said it put him to sl...