Conservative groups have launched a PR campaign to frame the Comstock Act of 1873 as an anti-drug trafficking law. One expert ...

In the late 1800s, those who wanted to eliminate birth control and abortion targeted the U.S. mail. Now the conduit in the ...

In early March 1873, shortly after his namesake censorship bill was signed into federal law, Anthony Comstock was commissioned a special agent of the U.S. Post Office. He’d aspired to this ...

The Washington Post is being criticized for a recent profile on a conservative lawyer that neglected to mention he supports a ...

We haven’t seen this kind of disparity in state laws around human rights since the Civil War," one legal expert told Jezebel.

President Trump’s second administration has advanced an avalanche of policy action and political pronouncements that have ...

Jeff Landry signed a bill last year that classified abortion medications as controlled substances. (Gage Skidmore via Flickr) ...

then-Senator Vance signed a letter from Republican lawmakers to the Justice Department requesting the enforcement of the provisions of the Comstock Act of 1873. They wrote, “We demand that you ...

If those paths are not sufficient to limit medication abortions, it proposes invoking an 1873 anti-obscenity law, the Comstock Act, as justification to block the mailing of any abortion-related ...