Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), which would effectively criminalize all pornography nationwide by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. For years, “obscenity” has been all but a defunct legal category that narrowly defines speech that remains unprotected by the First Amendment. Lee would explode this legal category, expanding it to encompass

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REASON: Airport Human-Trafficking Posters Are Overstating the Risks to Young People

If you’ve recently been to a U.S. airport, you might have seen posters depicting an attractive, unsmiling young person. These posters are accompanied by sensationalist, hyperbolic claims that young people are at risk of predation from human traffickers. They include a contact number to report suspected trafficking. The posters are part of the Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign, “a

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Operation Restore Justice: 205 Child Sex Abuse Offenders Arrested in FBI-led Nationwide Crackdown

he Department of Justice announced the results of Operation Restore Justice, a coordinated enforcement effort to identify, track and arrest child sex predators. The operation resulted in the rescue of 115 children and the arrests of 205 child sexual abuse offenders in the nationwide crackdown. The coordinated effort was executed over the course of five days by all 55 FBI

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Law seeks to protect children from Sex Offenders − 20 years later, the jury is still out

Before his sentencing in March 2025, a convicted child rapist asked for a judgment that would have set him free in 2027. The Kansas resident received 25 years with no chance of parole. The reason? Jessica’s Law, which Kansas lawmakers passed in 2006. Kansas was one of the first states to follow Florida’s initial enactment of Jessica’s Law 20 years

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Fearmongering About Homeless Sex Offenders Ignores the Real Culprit—Bad Laws

The recent City Journal article warning about homeless sex offenders refuses to confront an Inconvenient truth. The very laws sold to the public as “safety measures” are what created this crisis in the first place. The high percentage of homeless people on sex offender registries isn’t a mystery. It’s not because they’re uniquely dangerous or morally defective, as the article

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