The Good News Is, Trump’s Full of Shit
To put it mildly, I’m not a fan of former reality TV show host Donald J. Trump. To put it more precisely, I think Trump is a living piece of ...
Tag: obscenity prosecutions
Will Conservative Push for Obscenity Prosecutions Bear Fruit?
Social conservatives have been pushing for the Trump Administration to crack down on porn lately, including in a letter to Attorney General William Barr by four GOP lawmakers, who urged ...
Lawmakers Call on Attorney General to Go After “Obscene Pornography”
Late last week, four Republican members of Congress sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr, pleading that he spur the Department of Justice to take action against producers and ...
Are Obscenity Prosecution Concerns Obsolete?
It's hard to believe producers of adult content were once warned not to depict interracial sex or employ transsexual performers. The "Cambria List" seems obsolete; are concerns over obscenity prosecutions ...
‘I Eat Ass’ Sticker Leads to Obscenity Charges in Florida
Florida Man is at it again. This time he has been charged with possessing obscene materials -- those materials being a sticker which reads "I eat ass." Will the charge ...
UK Won’t Target ‘Consensual and Legal Activities’ for Obscenity Prosecution
The UK's Crown Prosecution Service says it will no longer bring obscenity charges "based on material that depicts consensual and legal activity between adults where no serious harm is caused ...
Anti-Porn Group Calls on Barr to Fulfill Promises Made by Trump
As one of his many campaign promises, President Donald Trump vowed that he would "aggressively enforce" federal obscenity laws. Enough is Enough, the anti-porn group which elicited that promise from ...
Douglas: Return of Obscenity Prosecutions Unlikely, Even Under Barr
When President Trump announced William Barr as his pick to be the next Attorney General, many in the adult industry cringed. Barr was part of the last DOJ effort to ...
The Promise Nobody in Porn Wants Trump to Keep
Back in the summer of 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump signed a pledge averring that he'd "aggressively enforce" federal obscenity laws. Two and a half years later, what has become ...
An Old Case Reminds Us How Dumb Obscenity Law Can Get
CLEARWATER, Fla. – For as much concern as the prospect of an obscenity law-enforcement “crackdown” has caused within the adult entertainment industry over the decades, obscenity prosecutions are something you ...
