When the Supreme Court ruled that the government could not block the publication of secret Defense Department documents in the New York Times, it did so because of the doctrine preventing

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The doctrine preventing prior restraint is the principle that the government cannot censor or prohibit the publication of material before it is printed or distributed. In the case of the New York Times publishing secret Defense Department documents, the Supreme Court found that the government's attempt to block the publication was a form of prior restraint and therefore unconstitutional.

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