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Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in November’s election, has joined an unusual club: presidential contenders who are also convicted criminals. Before Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a historic verdict on Thursday, the most well-known convict seeking the Oval Office had been Eugene Debs, a socialist who conducted his presidential campaign behind bars in 1920.
wartime policy or then-President Woodrow Wilson would run afoul of the Sedition Act of 1918, an amendment of the 1917 Espionage Act that curtailed free speech rights. So he delivered a delicately worded, but searing, address in protest of the war, arguing that American men were “fit for something better” than “cannon fodder.” His wording was not careful enough: Debs was later arrested and tried as a traitor. Debs appealed the case, which went to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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