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28 June 2004
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Before continuing to Part III, I note that the "child access to porn" decision should be released tomorrow, as should the fifty-seventh (or so) substantive decision in Álvarez-Machain, which has already directly or indirectly had three previous considerations by the Court. This promises to be more than moderately disheartening; I have found much to criticize in every last-day-of-Term First Amendment decision issued since Sullivan, and Álvarez-Machain is the epitome of legal fictionin the sense of Bleak House.