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Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,
Jack Balkin
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Brown truly becomes law, really becomes something everyone's on board with after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ... At that point, Congress said, 'We are behind Brown.'
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It would not be (illegal) under child pornography laws because no actual child was used in the act. Child pornography laws receive special treatment under the First Amendment because children are sexually abused and people traffic in the results of that abuse.
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