It looks like the Obama administration thinks Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” is still hot news.
The Supreme Court may have to review the FCC’s decision to fine CBS for the incident, according to Politico.
Apparently CBS is making the argument that the $550,000 fine was unwarranted because their indecency rules cover “fleeting nudity.” But Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said, in his petition to the court, that “its indecency rules and policies never included a ‘fleeting nudity’ exception to indecency liability.”
“Because the general policy of contextual indecency analysis applied to both visual depictions and verbal descriptions of sexual or excretory functions, such depictions and descriptions could be found indecent even if they were not repeated or extended,” the petition stated.
While it is still unknown whether the Supreme Court will take the case, it is shocking that they would even consider the issue.
How is Janet Jackson still relevant and yet Nicki Minaj’s scandalous American Idol appearance is a passing whim? We can only hope that the Supreme Court thinks the same and decides to spend their time on more important issues, like our healthcare.
