Justice Alito, dissenting. The Court strikes down in its entirety a valuable statute, 18 U. S. C. § 48 , that was enacted not to suppress speech, but to prevent horrific acts of animal cruelty — in particular, the creation and commercial exploitation of “crush videos,” a form of depraved entertainment that has no social value. The Court’s approach, which has the practical eff…
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