United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc., 513 U.S. 64, 24 (1994)

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Cite as: 513 U. S. 64 (1994)

Scalia, J., dissenting

approve of the disposition urged by the United States before this Court and adopted today, which not only rewrites the statute, but (1) rewrites it more radically than its constitutional survival demands, and (2) raises baseless constitutional doubts that will impede congressional enactment of a law providing greater protection for the child-victims of the pornography industry. The Court today saves a single conviction by putting in place a relatively toothless child-pornography law that Congress did not enact, and by rendering congressional strengthening of that new law more diffi-cult. I respectfully dissent.

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