SCOTUS Blog Schwarzenegger v. EMA Preview

The SCOTUS Blog gives us a preview of the arguments we can expect from both sides of the Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association review before the Supreme Court on November 2. Deputy state attorney general Zackery P. Morazzini will argue for California (Jerry Brown is busy campaigning for Governor of the state), and Paul M. Smith of Jenner & Block will be arguing for the video game industry.

This is a great read because it covers everything about the case that you could possibly imagine, but the bit below sums up a general feeling about the SCOTUS taking up the case in the first place:

One of the briefs, from the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment and the Brechner First Amendment Project, implied that the Court may have taken on more of a societal challenge than it realized when it granted review of the case. By granting the petition, it commented, “the Court now stands primed to wade deeply into the culture war over media violence. This is a surreal, surrogate and substitute war…for addressing the problems of real-world violence, as California and other government entities play the media blame game…It also is a war over censorship.” What the Court is being asked to sustain, that brief said dismissively, is “feel-good legislation.”

Read the whole thing here.