Court Protects Animal Cruelty As Expression
Larry
April 21, 2010
Doodles
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Tags: Animal Cruelty, Chief Justice Roberts, portrait of the day, sketch of the day, supreme court
Ball point pen on todays newsprint
Yesterday the Supreme Court overturned a federal law that made it a crime to create or sell dogfighting videos and other depictions of animal cruelty. Samuel Alito the lone voice defending said law argued that “videos depicting dogfights are essential to the success of the criminal dogfighting subculture.” But John Roberts writing for the majority in the by 8 to 1 majority said “The First Amendment means the governments has no power to restrict expression because … Continue Reading
