The Nation - News from Aug. 1, 1985
Lawyers for the Federal Communications Commission and the American Civil Liberties Union suggested that a Senate bill to ban pornography on cable TV might violate a 1957 Supreme Court ruling against limiting adults to seeing “only what is fit for children.” At a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing, FCC General Counsel Jack Smith and ACLU lobbyist Barry Lynn both questioned the constitutionality of the bill introduced by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.).
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