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(Even) More Comstock Coverage

By Corey Rayburnyung

The Wall Street Journal is running an excellent editorial discussing United States v. Comstock and its implications for future Commerce Clause decisions. The Los Angeles Times and UPI are also running editorials about Comstock. From the WSJ op-ed: Sex offenders are the least sympathetic of legal plaintiffs. Still, we were dismayed last week to see so many Supreme Court Justices during oral arguments apparently willing to let the federal government take over an area of law governing criminals that the Constitution grants to the states.The question in U.S. v. Comstock is whether sex offenders who have already completed their federal criminal sentences may then see their incarceration extended through a process of "civil commitment" by the federal government...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).