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Comstocking Sexting: Oklahoma Bill Seeks to Criminalize Sending Lewd Images Outside of Marriage

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It appears that Anthony Comstock is having something of a revival in Oklahoma. Oklahoma Senate Bill 1976 would also make posing or exhibiting such images. In a 2002 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment.

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Arizona dispatch: student delegates to Model Constitutional Convention pass proposed amendments on equal rights, tribal sovereignty, gerrymandering and eminent domain limits

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But the Convention came together to declare that equal rights, including rights for women and LGBTQ+ people, should be a fundamental value of American constitutional law. The second amendment that passed was an amendment enshrining tribal sovereignty in the US Constitution. New London.

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“This is a Moment”: Dobbs and the Realities of the Post-Roe World

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.” Ironically, it was the only part of the president’s remarks that is consistent with what the court actually said in its decision in Dobbs v. Wade, the court ruled that millions of citizens, not nine justices, must now decide the question of abortion. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In overturning Roe v.

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