Supreme Court Again Hears Arguments Over Internet Porn Law

The Bush administration's top lawyer asked the Supreme Court to end a five-year legal battle that has prevented enforcement of a federal law designed to keep Internet pornography away from minors. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson told the justices that the restrictions on sexually oriented Web sites imposed by the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which was passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1998, do not violate free speech.