WASHINGTON — It was a day of wild hypotheticals Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court reached far and wide for help in deciding whether a federal law that makes it a crime to depict animal cruelty violates the First Amendment.
By the end of the riveting hour of argument in U.S. v. Stevens , it seemed likely that a sizable majority of the court was ready to strike down the law as too broad or too vague.
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