Last year I applauded a Third Circuit decision striking down, on First Amendment grounds, a statute banning the interstate sale of depictions of cruelty to animals. As I wrote then, the Third Circuit essentially refused to recognize a new "low-value speech" carve-out for depictions of animal cruelty. Now Jonathan Turley reports that SCOTUS has accepted the case for review. Eugene Volokh has some thoughts on the very broad reach of the statute, and about the slippery-slope implications of extending the child-pornography categorical First Amendment exception to other categories.

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