Cops and Courts

Missoula County courts might be closed because of today’s election (anybody else notice that it’s also Day of the Dead?) but the U.S. Supreme Court is going strong.

Specifically, the justices are examining the case of Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association. It involves a California law that tries to keep kids from buying the really violent ones featuring murder, maiming and sexual mayhem. Jesse Holland of the Associated Press has the story:

“We do not have a tradition in this country of telling children they should watch people actively hitting schoolgirls over the head with a shovel so they’ll beg with mercy, being merciless and decapitating them, shooting people in the leg so they fall down,” Chief Justice John Roberts said.

Roberts decried that one game lets a player “pour gasoline over them, set them on fire and urinate on them.” “We protect children from that,” he said. “We don’t actively expose them to that.”

Read the whole story below.

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