The air was thick with hypotheticals at the Supreme Court last week as the justices considered whether a law designed to outlaw videos depicting cruelty to animals was constitutional. Because there is no floor to human decadence, so-called "crush videos" depicting women in high heels crushing small animals to death enjoyed a certain popularity. Congress outlawed them. Most of the justices appeared to think that the law ran afoul of the First Amendment and they let fly with a quiver full of theoreticals. "What if I'm an aficionado of bullfighting who wants to promote his passion about the noble fight...
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When the First Amendment Counts Most, Court Has Been AWOL
For congress to have such authority over campaigns would mean they have the right to tell us "THE PEOPLE", the ones who are choosing from among ourselves individuals to be stewards of our rights that we do not have the right to freely influence and work toward...