1. Art Censorship
"The Court held that because the decency and respect clause was not mandatory, i.e. the Act does not require NEA to base it's funding decisions on this standard, it merely directs NEA to consider them as part of the funding process, it was not an unreasonable attempt by Congress to regulate artistic content in violation of the First Amendment rights of Karen Finley" (Hale). ... In addition, he cut off the annual funding from the City to the museum which was about $6-7 million, and directed various City agencies to have the Museum evicted from the City owned building in which it was housed...
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