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In April 2016, in the middle of a presidential primary, Mother Jones published a piece that instantly became campaign-trail catnip: as Texas solicitor general, Ted Cruz’s office had defended a state law that made selling “obscene devices” a crime. The brief contained a line that has never stopped circulating: “There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.”
