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SCOTUScast on United States v. Williams

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

The Federalist Society has a SCOTUS podcast on the U.S. Supreme Court's May 19, 2008 decision in United States v. Williams. The SCOTUScast features commentary by Elizabeth Harmer Dionne, the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Harvard Law School. Dionne specializes First Amendment issues, particularly freedom of religion and obscenity law. The Williams case addressed section 2252A(a)(3)(B) of Title 18 U.S.C., which Congress passed after the Supreme Court's decision in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition. Section 2252A(a)(3)(B), the "Protect Act", prohibits knowingly advertising, promoting, presenting, distributing or soliciting material in a manner that reflects the belief, or is intended to cause another to believe, that the material is illegal child pornography...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).