A Discomfiting Threat to Free Speech

[Commentary] The Supreme Court upheld a law on Monday that sweeps too broadly in its attempt to ban child pornography, which is repellent and illegal. Those who traffic in it must be punished, but this law is drawn in a way that also criminalizes speech that should be protected by the First Amendment. The dissenters are right that the court should have made Congress go back and pass a more carefully written law. They are also right that the court’s analysis undermines protections for political speech.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/opinion/21wed2.html?ref=todayspaper
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