Anti-prostitution pledge for AIDS groups nixed (Washington Blade, June 28, 2013)
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional this week a Bush-era law that compelled AIDS services organizations to sign a pledge opposing prostitution and human trafficking in order to receive funding for international work. In a 6-2 decision, the majority opinion, authored by Justice Roberts, said the federal government violated the First Amendment in forcing organizations to sign the pledge as a condition of funding, according to NBC News.
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Newsday:
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the court, said the anti-prostitution pledge in a 2003 AIDS funding law improperly restricts the groups' U.S. constitutional rights. In the 6-2 decision, Roberts wrote that requiring the pledge "requires them to pledge allegiance to the government's policy of eradicating prostitution." That, the government cannot do, he wrote. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.
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