Background+to+the+Cases

Charles Schenk and Jacob Abrams were examples of two cases that were convictednof violstiong the Espionage Act. Schenk mailed pamphlets to draftees telling them the draft was wrong and urging them to write protest letters. Abrams wrote pamphlets denouncing the war and criticizing the decision to send troops to Russia to fight communist forces. Both men ended up appealing their convictions all the way to the Supreme Court.