FIRE calls on President Biden to pardon DM Bennett

"Freedom, like health, is most fully appreciated by those who have been long deprived of it."
Those are the words of D.M. Bennett, a writer done dirty by the Comstock Act-a grossly unconstitutional law that puts everyone's First Amendment rights at risk.
Now, FIRE calls on President Biden to pardon Bennett.

[@lokiva8540]

It's surprising to hear that 1996 was part of the Victorian Era.... My history lessons must have been flawed.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 included two devious paragraphs within Title V therein (aka the CDA) which appeared as if innocuous technical conformance language, that revived and expanded parts of the Comstock Act not entirely overturned until the 1980's. That shows the danger in not having legal process to mandate that statutes overturned be updated to remove illicit sections.
Another example of that are negligent and malicious arrests and prosecutions in NY state (where Comstock originated) for exercising Topfree Equality rights, as litigated in Santorelli, Schloss, et al v NY. There have been 5 figure damages paid out for harassing gay rights paraders, park sunbathers, and people in rural towns with judges and prosecutors flouting the law, but most of whom are idiots relative to statutes on the books years or decades after judicial overturn.
A major Comstock laws overturn was US v One Package, in the 2nd Circuit, from the same era as the fraud used to form the BIR (later IRS), and more nebulous legality Federal Reserve, as well as NFA to abridge RTKBA. That "One Package" was a box of 140 (more or less) pessaries (ei, diaphragms) enroute from a Japanese physician, to a Sanger clinics affiliated US doctor. The legal premise used was akin to British criminal prosecutions of wooden barrels, if those criminal defendants dared hold verbotten whiskey.
This is also a type of legal treachery the Civil Rights Act of 1871 banned, but where the Federal Recorder of Documents skipped including 16 words of that law when codifying it in official records in 1874. That error if not fraud, to mandate prosecutions of corrupt officials, not shield them as if some British King's men, became the basis over a century later for SCOTUS doctrine of Qualified Immunity as well as lack of process to prosecute judges and politicians for malicious violations of Constitutional standards. See Alexander Reinert's research a year ago in the CA Law Rev, "Qualified Inmunity's Flawed Foundations".
How effectively might FIRE work with Institute for Justice, or Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other such litigators, to clean up these pseudo-moralistic legal scams?

[@cz2604]

Pardon a victim?

[@donnajohnson3334]

Would be great for Joe to retire and put us out of his misery !.

[@Geersification]

Id rather have him. Than trump, a convicted felon and convicted rapist who owe EG.Carroll, now 93 million. Vote blue all the way

[@myaccount6778]

Lady, take your petitions and put where the sun don’t shine 👺