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Gregory v. Attorney General Of State Of New Hampshire…

New Hampshire in my view should be free to investigate the existence or nonexistence of Communist Party subversion, or any other legitimate subject of concern to the State without first being asked to produce evidence of the very type to be sought in the course of the inquiry. Then, given that the subject of investigation in this case is a permissible one, the appellant seems to me a witness who could properly be called to testify about it
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Gregory v. Attorney General Of State Of New Hampshire…

There is no showing whatsoever of present danger of sedition against the State itself, the only area to which the authority of the State extends. [7] There is thus absent that 'nexus' between appellant and subversive activities in New Hampshire which the Court found to exist in Uphaus v. Wyman, supra, 360 U.S. at 79, 79 S.Ct. at 1045. New Hampshire's interest on this record is too remote and conjectural to override the guarantee of the First Amendment that a person can speak or not, as he chooses, free of all governmental compulsion.
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