Washington- The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights will hold a hearing on Wednesday, February 16, 2005, at 2:30 p.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building on”Obscenity Prosecution of the First Amendment.”

Sen. Sam Brownback will preside. Once again, the adult entertainment industry — the clear target of the hearing — was neither invited nor notified of the hearing, and attempts to provide witnesses friendly to the adult industry were rebuffed by subcommittee officials. The subcommittee will hear invited constitutional experts address the implications of the decision in U.S. v. Extreme Associates from the Western District of Pennsylvania. The decision, announced on January 21, was a victory for free speech rights, but according to Sens. Brownback and Orrin Hatch, in their Washington Times Op-Ed column of February 10th, it was “a Frankenstein’s monster of judicial activism.” https://www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=8181 The Free Speech Coalition said it will see to it that objective and professional written testimony from prominent, knowledgeable and seasoned First Amendment attorneys is included in the subcommittee’s record, in order that the U.S. Senate be made aware of all sides of this very important issue.