Following Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, the United States Congress passed the federal child obscenity statute criminalizing obscene, sexually explicit depictions of real or imaginary children

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John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald served as mayor of Boston and as a member of the United States Congress

Major changes to the United States Social Security program require bipartisan support to pass through Congress

Social Security trust fund reserves are projected to be depleted in 2032 if the United States Congress enacts no legislative fixes

United States congressional budget reconciliation rules explicitly prohibit the passage of legislation altering Social Security with a simple majority

Mark Zuckerberg testified before the United States Congress and attended a closed hearing with the European Parliament

Under the United States Constitution, each house of Congress is the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members

The United States Constitution protects members of the United States Congress through the Speech and Debate Clause of Article I

Following a disputed 1996 congressional election in California, the United States House Committee on Oversight identified 784 invalid votes from individuals registered illegally

An impeachment resolution was introduced in Congress against Pete Hegseth

Mike Rogers served as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

United States federal courts of appeals have consistently upheld the constitutionality of federal child sexual abuse material statutes applied to digitally morphed imagery depicting identifiable, real children

In United States v. Anderegg, the district court declined to extend Stanley v. Georgia First Amendment protections to charges of producing or distributing obscene imagery depicting imaginary children

Producing, receiving, and distributing artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse material are not activities protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution

In United States v. Anderegg, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a federal charge for purely in-home, private possession of obscene imagery depicting imaginary children

In Briana Pfefferkorn and Cindy Diniok's study of 71 federal artificial intelligence child sexual abuse material prosecutions, 8 defendants raised First Amendment constitutional defenses

Generating artificial intelligence child sexual abuse material independently can result in federal charges for production

Law enforcement agencies face operational difficulties determining whether an artificial intelligence-altered image depicts a child requiring rescue or an altered image from an existing historical abuse series

In Briana Pfefferkorn and Cindy Diniok's study of 71 federal prosecutions explicitly involving AI CSAM, 9 cases involved exclusively fully synthetic imagery depicting non-existent children

Research teams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing methods to detect whether software uploaded to model-hosting platforms can generate child sexual abuse material without producing illicit images

Federal criminal cases explicitly identifying artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse material rose from two in 2022 to 40 in 2025