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18 Mar 2024, 9:30 am by Guest Blogger
“Even though the Comstock law does not ban abortion literally,” Mitchell has explained, “it bans the shipment or receipt of any abortion-related equipment,” and no abortion takes place in the United States without some item sent in the mail. [read post]
5 Mar 2024, 8:13 am by Marty Lederman
  Thankfully, no Justice wrote to give any credence at all to the absurd arguments that the President isn’t an “officer of the United States” or that the presidency isn’t an office “under the United States. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 5:56 pm
Pix credit here In a 53 page opinion, the United States District Court for Northern Alabama has ruled, in National Small Business Association v. [read post]
16 Jun 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
  More on Comstock and his laws (Smithsonian). [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 6:45 am by Tracy Thomas
Reva Siegel & Mary Ziegler, Our Victorian Supreme Court, Slate The fate of mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of abortions in the United States, will now be decided by the same conservative justices who reversed Roe v.... [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
  Georgetown Law observes the centennial of United States v. [read post]
1 Mar 2023, 8:00 am by Erin Sutton
Department of Justice (“DOJ”) opined that the United States Postal Service (“USPS”) could still mail medications used for abortion because DOJ interpreted the Comstock Act to apply to “unlawful use. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 12:33 pm by Jennifer Dalven
Access to abortion has been decimated in the United States since June when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. [read post]
19 Sep 2022, 4:06 pm by Reference Staff
One of the most famous censorship cases to land in the courts is United States v. [read post]
20 May 2022, 1:56 pm by David Kopel
In my view, it is a mistake to conflate support for ever-increasing national government with love of the United States of America. [read post]