Playboy Interview: Ralph Ginzburg

Playboy Interview: Ralph GinzburgIn 1957, the Supreme Court established, in Roth vs. United States, that, obscenity was not "speech" in the constitutional meaning of the word and therefore could not be protected under the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which, reads: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." At the same time, the Court established a relatively liberal formula for recognizing obscenity, and in subsequent decision...