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...fight cyberporn. The first blow was struck by Senators Exon and Coats, who earlier this year introduced revisions to an existing law called the Communications Decency Act. The idea was to extend regulations written to govern the dial-a-porn industry into the computer networks. The bill proposed to outlaw obscene material and impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years on anyone who knowingly makes "indecent" material available to children under...
Even those legal scholars who think Thomas would have voted to outlaw segregation believe he would have done so in such a way as to severely hobble the drive toward racial equality. "He takes a more limited view than any other justice for the past 40 years of the proper scope of authority of a federal court confronted with a deliberate violation of the Constitution," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe...
...economic productivity. But five of the Justices disagreed with that logic. Chief Justice William Rehnquist called the Act "a criminal statute that by its terms has nothing to do with 'commerce' or any sort of economic enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms." More than 40 states already outlaw gun possession on or near school grounds. Those laws are not affected by today's ruling. But Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), the federal law's sponsor, said he was "astonished that the Supreme Court has said that Congress cannot protect our children from guns," and asserted that today...
Even so, any break in so murderous a conflict is welcome. And the truce in Sudan well illustrates the strange phenomenon of Carter diplomacy. This time, at least, nobody is likely to denounce it as an unconscionable bribe to an outlaw state, as some did the North Korean agreement Carter got started last June--or as helping to legitimize a band of killers, the view some took of the cease-fire he brokered in Bosnia in December. Nor will he be accused of undermining official U.S. policy, a charge still heard six months after his last-minute success in paving...
...Senate today voted 91-9 to outlaw the practice of imposing new federal mandates on state and local governments without providing adequate funding. The compromise bill is expected to clear the House this week, and be signed into law by President Clinton. It would be the second measure in the Republican "Contract With America" initiative to become law. Nine contract bills have cleared the House. Seven have yet to face a House vote. The "unfunded mandates" bill would not immediately eliminate existing environmental and worker safety requirements. They would be reviewed by a special commission. The bill does not apply...