[Fat chance. --Declan]
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STATEMENT OF BARBARA COMSTOCK, U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT:
"The Department of Justice is now reviewing the ruling issued today by the
three-judge district court in American Library Association v. United States
of America. The Justice Department is disappointed by the court's
declaration that the Childrens' Internet Protection Act violates the First
Amendment, and the Department is currently reviewing the ruling in
connection with an appeal of that ruling." Note: An appeal to the Supreme
Court must be filed within 20 days of the ruling.
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Micah Swafford
May 31, 2002
202-225-2132
Istook Confident CIPA Decision Will Be Overturned
Washington, DC -- Congressman Ernest Istook (R-OK) expressed confidence
that the Supreme Court will overturn today's ruling by a three-judge panel
on the Children's Internet Protection Act. Istook was one of the principal
authors of the legislation to require obscenity-blocking software on
computers in public schools and libraries to which children have access.
The legislation included a provision requiring any challenge to proceed
directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"The plantiffs selected a venue they knew would be sympathetic, the same
court which struck down several other legislative attempts to protect our
children from obscenity," said Istook. "The Supreme Court has previously
recognized that taxpayers can decide what they what and will not fund, and
nobody has a legal right to subsidized pornography. This ruling indicates
that the only way to stop libraries from providing children with access to
Internet obscenity would be to stop giving them funds to provide the
access. Nobody wants that to happen. I have every confidence that the
Supreme Court will apply common sense and the Constitution and overturn
this extreme decision."
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