COURT VIRTUALLY SAVES DEMOCRACY AGAIN

That's right. Your right to produce and consume virtual child porn is safe and sound. How exactly it is linked to the preservation of democratic deliberation I'll leave to my libertarian friends. As the winning side argued, with such a law, the next step would have been to ban movies like Lolita, Traffic, and Ameircan Beauty. Right - except for the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans wouldn't tolerate such a ban, Congress made clear in the legislative history it had no intention for the bill to cover such a situation. Seemed to me that here was a clear place for the "constructing a statute to avoid constitutional question" canon. I will now try to get over the shock over siding with Rehnquist and Scalia.