Dig on 'subversion'…

Interesting article - just getting started - 'The Supreme Court and State Power to Deal with Subversion and Loyalty'

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=11657&context=journal_articles

page 6:

A number of state

legislatures embarked on ambitious programs of legislative investigation

in order to discover and expose disloyal or subversive persons

and organizations;14 and a steady stream of legislation dealing

with every phase of "subversion" has poured from state capitols.15

PAST: COMMUNISTS AND SUBVERSIVES HAD TO REGISTER LIKE TODAY'S SEXUAL PREDATORS (IN SOME STATES) AND THERE WERE CONSEQUENCES

15:

…Existing laws prohibiting

treason, insurrection, sabotage, sedition and the like have been refurbished and

expanded. Communists and subversives have been excluded from public office and

.denied the right to vote. Loyalty oaths have been widely required not only of

elected officials and public employees, but of other groups as well, particularly

lawyers and teachers. Comprehensive registration statutes have required organizations

or persons defined as "subversive" to register with state authorities. Disabilities

have been imposed on those who register, while a failure to register subjects

the alleged "subversive" to criminal penalties. In some states the Communist Party

has been made an unlawful organization; nearly everywhere substantial disabilities

have been imposed on communists. Among the various privileges and benefits which

have been denied to "subversives" are jury service, public housing, tax exemption

and welfare benefits. And, finally, many municipalities have thought it necessary

to duplicate the federal and state legislation with local ordinances covering the

same ground.

PRESENT: IT SEEMS COMMUNISTS AND SUBVERSIVES HAVE INFILTRATED OUR GOVERNMENT AND ARE OPPRESSING US WITH IMPUNITY

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^^^Sorry the date for the 'PAST' when communists and subversives had consequences was 1955

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Right…with impunity

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and…I should have kept reading….the laws were put on the books but they did not enforce them!

"Certainly most of the state legislation has proved ineffective. A mere handful

of admitted communists have been prosecuted in state courts for sedition or similar crimes. The Communist Party has been deprived of the somewhat dubious opportunity of capturing the vote of the common man. The state registration schemes have been entirely inoperative. Throughout the entire country only one individual is reported to have registered, and despite the lack of registrants, no prosecutions for failure to register have been brought."

Now we have a POTUS that wants to enforce and he's still getting stonewalled.

sauce:

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=11657&context=journal_articles