Yep, another videogame related thread but if you're paying attention to pop culture you'll see how many young people actually care about these issues. GP and other similar sites that deal with videogames and politics have taken off and are getting some traffic. Anyway, someone wrote an editorial that said that Alito might look into videogame legislation.
"Wait... wasn't President Bush opposed to activist judges?
An editorial in yesterdays's Beloit Daily News suggests that pending Supreme Court nominee Joseph Alito (left) could be just the tonic to reverse past judicial precedent as well a recent court decision and revive the sagging fortunes of the Safe Games Illinois Act. The video game law championed by Governor Rod Blagojevich was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge on December 2nd.
The Daily News editors urge Blagojevich to press his appeal of the law's defeat. They also manage to sling a bit more of the "games as porn" rhetoric that has become so common:..."
http://www.livejournal.com/users/gamepolitics/158276.html