The Constitution on Early Civil Liberties during the 1910s and 1920s?

Question

Can someone explain to me what was the general attitude of the Supreme Court during the 1910s and 1920s on civil liberties?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, not very good. With the exception of Brandeis, the Justices allowed the destruction of civil liberties by the executive branch to continue unbridled. This included the deportation of several thousand leftist legal residents after the Great War, the destruction of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World, a native syndico-anarchist organisation) on the grounds that its leaders opposed that war, and the continued imprisonment of Gene Debs, head of the Socialist Party, again for opposing the war. Wilson's second term was the nastiest in our history in terms of civil liberties, not excluding either Lincoln's more excusable abuses, or the post-WWII assault on them, generally called McCarthyism. Just to get an idea, figure that it took Warren Harding, of all people, to get Debs out of the Atlanta Penitentiary.