Near v. Minnesota was a US Supreme Court decision that affirmed the right to:
A. Freedom of Press
B. Right to Petition
C. Freedom of Religion
D. Freedom of Speech
Answer: A. Freedom of Press
The answer is A, the Freedom of the Press. The Court ruled that a Minnesota law that targeted publishers of "malicious" or "scandalous" newspapers violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment). Legal scholar and columnist Anthony Lewis called Near the Court's "first great press case." It was later a key precedent in New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), in which the Court ruled against the Nixon administration's attempt to enjoin publication of the Pentagon Papers.
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