Teens Caught Sexting Could Soon Face 15 Years in Prison - Broadly
But Johnson, a Trump supporter, brushed off his colleagues’ concerns. “In Scripture, Romans 13 refers to the governing authorities as ‘God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer,’” he said. “I, for one, believe we have a moral obligation, as any just government should, to defend the defenseless.”
The bill comes in response to a reportedly botched child exploitation case brought by the Department of Justice, in which federal prosecutors failed to convict a man who was accused of sexually abusing his seven-year-old neighbor. The defendant had taken one photo of the abuse, which the Court ruled insufficient evidence to prove he violated the child pornography statute. Reason reports that the Department of Justice pushed federal lawmakers to “make their prosecutorial overreach more permissible.”
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