21.   Lawyers representing Alabama defended their law by arguing that there is no fundamental right to a product used to produce an orgasm.

22.   Minnesota election officials defended the laws, arguing that states have the power to regulate their own elections and that the Minnesota fusion ban did not violate the Constitution.

23.   Normally the state attorney general, Peter Verniero, would defend the law against legal challenges.

24.   President Clinton signed the bill and administration lawyers defended the law vigorously.

25.   Sen. Joseph Biden, senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, defended the law.

26.   Sacks is currently defending the law in state and federal court.

27.   The administration, burned several years ago by criticism in Congress that it was lax in prosecuting child pornography, has vigorously defended the law.

28.   The Clinton administration had said it would vigorously defend the law against the WTO complaints.

29.   The Clinton and Bush administrations both defended the law in court.

30.   The Clinton administration defended the law, which was challenged by a coalition including the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Association.