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Originally Posted by baddog
How was that against us? Would you rather they lumped us all in together?
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Lumped us all together? The Miller case was prosecuting someone for a dirty magazine.
The ruling gave the states and federal government much more power in prosecuting obscenity cases. It created a vague definition for charging someone with obscenity. It led to thousands of arrests, and thousands of adult bookstores/theatres being shutdown across the country. We still have obscenity prosecutions to this day under that ruling. It was one of the worst rulings the porn industry has ever had against it.
"Liberal" judges want pornography to be protected under the 1st Amendment. "Conservative" judges don't. I don't know how you could be in this industry and support conservative judges with a straight face. Look at the voting in Aschcroft vs FSC. The conservative judges voted in favor of the government, the liberal judges didn't.