Jail sentence for hentai owner raises First Amendment issues

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Under the Bush administration, obscenity laws went through a period of revival and assumed a more prominent position in federal law enforcement efforts. This largely began in 2005 when the FBI assembled a team to actively search for “deviant porn” as part of an anti-obscenity initiative that then Attorney General Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller described as “one of the top priorities” of the Bureau. Cases brought before the courts as a result of the trend towards stronger enforcement of obscenity laws has led to some troubling legal precedents.