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Why Do We Treat Sex Crimes Differently Than Other Violent Crimes?

The Crime Report

“I’m kind of saying to people, you think that this is like enlightenment, creating more sex crimes every day, getting tougher on sex crimes, but look at some of the history, even the recent history and you start to question that instinct,” Gruber said of her research.

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Argument analysis: Justices doubt FTC’s authority to compel monetary relief

SCOTUSBlog

As she put it: [I]t seems to me that the best argument against your position, and it’s a strong one, comes from Section 5 and Section 19, which have these protections in them that Section 13 does not, that there has to be a repeated violation, that there has to be a certain kind of mens rea and so forth. For Kavanaugh, that dynamic.

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