Today, 1966, The Georgia State Legislature refused to seat Julian Bond, despite his election victory the previous November. Their objection was his stance against the Vietnam War. Bond took the case all the way to the Supreme Court where they ruled that Bond’s exclusion was unconstitutional, and Bond was finally sworn in the following month. The court declared that the state could not apply “loyalty tests” to legislators or undermine their First Amendment protections. Bond knew the case was going well when, after the Georgia Attorney General finished his argument one of the judges, Justice Byron White asked him, “Is that all you have? You come all this way and that’s all you have.” In a unanimous decision, the three judges ordered the Georgia House of Representatives to seat Julian Bond. Below, link to Bond's 1966 statement on his being denied his seat: https://www.crmvet.org/docs/660110_bond_statement.pdf