Who was the defendant in Ex Parte McCardle?

The defendant was William McCardle, a Vicksburg, Mississippi, newspaper editor who attacked Union occupation of his state after the Civil War.

President Andrew Johnson’s enforcement of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Mississippi v. Johnson. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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