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"As it Turns Out, There Are Limits on Congress?s Power"

By Corey Rayburnyung

Ilya Shapiro (of the Cato Institute) has an interesting post discussing the upcoming Supreme Court argument in United States v. Comstock. The Cato Institute has also filed a brief in support of the Respondent Comstock. You may read the brief here. From the post: In 2006, Congress passed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. One provision of the law authorizes the federal government to civilly commit anyone in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons whom the attorney general certifies to be ?sexually dangerous.? The effect of such an action is to continue the certified person?s confinement after the expiration of his prison term, without proof of a new criminal violation. Six days before the scheduled release of Graydon Comstock ? who had been sentenced to 37 months in jail for receiving child pornography ? the attorney general certified Comstock as sexually dangerous...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 09, 2009 (boomark / email).