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What did the Supreme Court do to change the conscientious objector laws during the Viet Nam war?

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In 1971 the Supreme Court refused to allow objection to a particular war, a decision affecting thousands of objectors to the Vietnam War. Some 50,000-100,000 men are estimated to have left the United States to avoid being drafted to serve in that war.

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