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: AlthouseThe Supreme Court declines to add depictions of animal cruelty to the categories of speech that the First Amendment does not protect.
ADDED: Here's the text of the opinion (which I don't have time to read at the moment). There is one dissenter: Justice Alito. The law that the Court struck down was a congressional response to "crush videos." In these, high-heeled women stepped on animals until they died, which some people find sexually stimulating.
Full post as published by Althouse on April 20, 2010 (boomark / email).
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