whether CIPA is invalid because it requires public libraries, as
a condition on the receipt of federal funds, to relinquish their
own First Amendment rights to provide the public with unfiltered
Internet access, a theory that we nonetheless feel constrained to
discuss (at length) in the margin.




















Having determined that CIPA violates the First Amendment, we
would usually be required to determine whether CIPA is severable
from the remainder of the statutes governing LSTA and E-rate
funding. Neither party, however, has advanced the argument that
CIPA is not severable from the remainder the Library Services and