Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Scholarly Commons
Abstract
The Meese Commission gave this nation a new political truth that in years to come will undoubtedly play an important role in federal or state efforts to restrict or suppress speech having pornographic content. Legislators, policymakers and the general public will quote and rely upon the Commission\u27s key finding that exposure to sexually violent materials bears a causal relationship to acts of sexual violence, unaware that the principal drafter of the Report played down this confidence in a separately published academic essay
