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Statutes of Limitation w/ Melissa Gira Grant (Unlocked)

Death Panel

CHAPTER

Comstock's Harlan Crow

Lisa Bloom: The story of Comstock is this New York City story, but it has this far-reaching effect. She says the law also prescribes police powers and famously Comstock himself gets appointed basically as the federal agent for obscenity aka a postal inspector. "This again is a consensus form of state repression using sexuality and gender through the lens of obscenity and immorality to declare what is licit and what is illicit"

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