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Just think about what he risks politically if, after all that inflammatory language, he loses the case on First Amendment grounds - and how he'll be labeled as the prosecutor who hung up the Welcome Sign for porn by taking an unnecessary case to court.
If he has any common sense, he won't direct any arrests or take any such case to court unless he's got something else in the case that's a slam dunk, guns, drugs, underage, off camera criminal misbehavior, or the like. It would not surprise me if he's on the prowl for something like that now. I think he wants to scare the porn industry away, endear himself to the moral right, but take as few chances as possible in an election year. It's always possible that someone's recklessness might hand him those things on a silver platter.
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Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue.
Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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