Thursday, October 31, 2002
Your tax dollars at work, if you live in Alabama
Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor has appealed the ruling (discussed here and elsewhere a while back) striking down as unconstitutional the state's anti-vibrator law. I try to maintain a healthy respect for elected officials even when I disagree with their acts, but I have to say, that's a nutty waste of public resources. (This is not to say that the State might not win the appeal; there are some judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Eleventh Circuit who might well have such a narrow view of the constitutional right to privacy as to say that a state can ban vibrators if it wants. But from a public-good perspective, I can't imagine any plausible argument that the public will be well served by this appeal, successful or not.)
posted by sam 6:59 AM 
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