According to the ruling in New York Times v. United States, which best describes what the government had to prove for its censorship of the New York Times to have been acceptable?

In New York Times v. United States (the Pentagon Papers case), the Supreme Court rejected the government’s attempt to block publication because it had not met the heavy burden required for prior restraint. The government needed to show that publication would cause a direct, immediate, and serious threat to national security—more than simply revealing classified information. Thus, the best choice is that the articles would have had to indisputably threaten national security.

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