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There was a war happening, a draft happening.

And he's like about to send it to the magazine.

And then he like pulls back and he's like, no, no, no, I'm not going to do it.

So in October of 1919, this case, the Abrams case, has oral arguments at the Supreme Court.

Now, let me kind of hit pause on Holmes for a second and tell you about the Abrams case.

So it was a Friday morning in 1918 and some random men who are on their way to work see a bunch of pamphlets on the sidewalk.

They were all scattered around.

Some are in English, some are in Yiddish, because it's like it's the Lower East Side.

So there would have been at that time there were like a lot of Russian Jewish emigres like in that area.

The pamphlets basically say workers wake up.

The president is shameful and cowardly and hypocritical and a plutocrat.

And right now he's fighting Germany, whom we hate.

But next after that, he's going to go for newly communist Russia, where you guys are from.

And so if you don't stop working, especially those of you who are working in factories, who are making bullets and bombs.

Some detectives get on the case.

They find the culprits.

They're convicted under the Espionage Act.

And the case ultimately makes its way to the Supreme Court.

It's a similar case to the ones before.

And you'd imagine that Holmes just had that same old argument like, you know, in his back pocket, ready to go.