Sections Section I: The Sedition Act of 1918 — Origins, Application, and Repeal Section II: The Doctrinal Evolution — From Clear and Present Danger to Brandenburg Section III: The Statutes That Survived — A Comparative Analysis Section IV: The January 6 Prosecutions — Proof of Concept Section V: The Full Statutory Landscape — Current Status Table Section VI: The Communist Control Act and the Zombie Statutes Conclusion Appendix A: References

Appendix A: References

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Federal Statutes

Alien Registration Act of 1940 (Smith Act), Pub. L. No. 76-670, 54 Stat. 670 (1940) (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. § 2385).

Advocating Overthrow of Government, 18 U.S.C. § 2385 (2018).

Communist Control Act of 1954, Pub. L. No. 83-637, 68 Stat. 775 (1954) (codified at 50 U.S.C. §§ 841–844).

Espionage Act of 1917, Pub. L. No. 65-24, 40 Stat. 217 (1917) (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. §§ 793–798).

Internal Security Act of 1950 (McCarran Act), Pub. L. No. 81-831, 64 Stat. 987 (1950).

Rebellion or Insurrection, 18 U.S.C. § 2383 (2018).

Repeal of the Sedition Act, Pub. L. No. 66-403, 41 Stat. 1359 (1921).

Sedition Act of 1918, Pub. L. No. 65-150, 40 Stat. 553 (1918) (repealed 1921).

Seditious Conspiracy, 18 U.S.C. § 2384 (2018).

United States Supreme Court Decisions

Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919).

Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board, 382 U.S. 70 (1965).

Berger v. United States, 255 U.S. 22 (1921).

Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969).

Debs v. United States, 249 U.S. 211 (1919).

Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951).

Frohwerk v. United States, 249 U.S. 204 (1919).

Noto v. United States, 367 U.S. 290 (1961).

Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919).

Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957).

Federal District Court Cases

United States v. Manning, CM 0891702 (U.S. Army Ct. Crim. App. 2013).

United States v. Rhodes et al., No. 1:22-cr-00015-APM (D.D.C. Nov. 29, 2022) (verdict); May 25, 2023 (sentencing).

United States v. Tarrio et al., No. 1:21-cr-00175-TJK (D.D.C. June 1, 2023) (verdict); Sept. 5, 2023 (sentencing).

United States v. Teixeira, No. 1:23-cr-10159 (D. Mass. 2023).

United States v. Winner, No. 1:17-cr-00034-JRH-BKE (S.D. Ga. Aug. 23, 2018).

Books and Articles

Chafee, Z. (1920). Freedom of speech. Harcourt, Brace.

Chafee, Z. (1941). Free speech in the United States. Harvard University Press.

Courtois, S., Werth, N., Panné, J.-L., Paczkowski, A., Bartošek, K., & Margolin, J.-L. (1999). The black book of communism: Crimes, terror, repression (J. Murphy & M. Kramer, Trans.). Harvard University Press.

Healy, T. (2013). The great dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind — and changed the history of free speech in America. Metropolitan Books.

Preston, W. (1963). Aliens and dissenters: Federal suppression of radicals, 1903–1933. Harvard University Press.

Stone, G. R. (2004). Perilous times: Free speech in wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism. W. W. Norton.

Summers, A. (1993). Official and confidential: The secret life of J. Edgar Hoover. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Government and Congressional Sources

Church Committee. (1976). Intelligence activities and the rights of Americans (Senate Report No. 94-755). U.S. Government Printing Office. (Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities)

Department of Justice. (2023). Attorney general announces charges against Massachusetts Air National Guard member for alleged unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information [Press release]. United States Department of Justice.

Federal Bureau of Investigation. (1971). Counterintelligence program: Internal security, disruption of the new left [Declassified COINTELPRO documents]. National Archives and Records Administration.