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A group unhappy with the draft distributes a memo to members encouraging physical confrontations with draft agents. The leaders of the group are promptly arrested. Which of the following Supreme Court cases best justifies the actions taken by law enforcement in this scenario?

A. Schneck v. US
B. Wisconson v. Yoder
C. Mapp v. OH
D. Brandenburg v. OH

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Option A is correct.

Schneck v. US is the Supreme Court case which best justifies the actions taken by law enforcement in this scenario.

About Schneck v. US:

The U.S. Supreme Court made a significant ruling in Schenck v. United States about the 1917 Espionage Act's application during World War I. The Supreme Court unanimously decided that defendants who handed out fliers to men of draftable age expressing opposition to induction might be found guilty of trying to impede the draught, a crime, in an opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Even if "in many locations and in usual times, the defendants, in stating all that was stated in the circular, could have been inside their constitutional rights," the First Amendment did not shield the defendants from prosecution.
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