Indiana Sen. Jim Banks is sounding the alarm about an “explosion of obscene pornography” ravaging the internet and imploring the Justice Department to crack down on it.
The Hoosier State Republican urged Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to reconvene the DOJ’s Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, which was dissolved in 2011 under the Obama administration.
“Ending obscenity prosecution was a mistake. With explicit content only a click away, there has never been a more important time to enforce our laws,” he pleaded with Blanche in a Tuesday letter seen by The Post.
The Bush administration had established the task force in 2005 to go after the dissemination of hardcore pornography.
Banks previously made an entreaty to the first Trump administration to revive that initiative.
Banks argued that the situation has grown more urgent in the time since his 2019 letter to the DOJ due to the growth of pornographic content.
