He was widely criticised over his suggestion that it would be "treasonous" if Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke printed more money in an effort to boost the struggling US economy.
The assumption is that this James is an unburdened James, and this assumption is brought to you by the same consensus that decided James was ambivalent in the 2010 playoffs and treasonous in 2010-11 and vengeful in 2011-12.
What the Court did do was to limit the Smith Act to cases where the advocacy for the overthrow of the government was more than merely theoretical and to require a real nexus between the advocacy and some action that was being urged to achieve the treasonous goal.