What is the current state's position on whether the First Amendment applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Liggett v. Superior Court (Gregerson), 224 Cal.App.3d 426, 260 Cal.Rptr. 161 (Cal. App. 1989):
2 The United States Supreme Court first recognized in dictum that the First Amendment applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause six years earlier in Gitlow v. New York (1925) 268 U.S. 652, 666, 45 S.Ct. 625, 629, 69 L.Ed. 1138.
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