What was the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Near v. Minnesota (the Saturday Press case)?

What will be an ideal response?

The Supreme Court ruled that the state law banning future issues of the “nuisance” publication was an unconstitutional prior restraint. The Court said that although the law was drafted to look like punishment after the fact for harmful speech, its effect was to stifle future content on the basis of government disfavor with the ideas expressed. This is the essence of censorship. The Court said prior restraint violates a core principle of the First Amendment that protects wide-open robust public debate particularly about government officials and government action. Prior restraint is presumptively unconstitutional and is far less acceptable than punishment after the fact because of its ability to severely distort the marketplace of ideas.