In this case, one of a series that undermined 1950’s anticommunist legislation, the Supreme Court overturned the communist registration provision in the 1950 McCarran Act.
A six-vote liberal majority on the Supreme Court voided the part of the 1950 McCarran Act requiring Communist
Writing for the Court, Justice Arthur J. Goldberg
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