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Fox News
14 hours ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Supreme Court upholds Texas law requiring age verification on porn websites
Print Close By Alexandra Koch Published June 27, 2025 The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday upheld a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify visitors' ages to protect minors from sexually explicit content online. Justices ruled 6-3 that requiring adults in Texas to verify their age does not violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, noting at least 21 other states imposed similar regulations on sexual material that could be harmful to minors online. Texas and other states prohibit the distribution of sexually explicit content to children in brick and mortar stores, but online content remains largely unregulated. 'WE WON': SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS OVER SCOTUS RULING DEALING 'FATAL BLOW' TO TRANSGENDER SURGERIES ON MINORS Lawmakers from the Lone Star State enacted a bill requiring certain commercial websites that publish sexually explicit content to verify the ages of those entering the site, which the justices upheld as constitutional, noting at least 21 other states imposed similar regulations on sexual material that could be harmful to minors. Those who visit sexually explicit websites will need to use government-issued identification or a "commercially reasonable method that relies on public or private transactional data." Sites can perform verification themselves or through a third-party service. SCOTUS RULES ON STATE BAN ON GENDER TRANSITION 'TREATMENTS' FOR MINORS IN LANDMARK CASE If website owners knowingly violate the law, the Supreme Court ruled the Texas attorney general can sue and collect a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per day that the site is non-compliant. They can also collect an additional penalty of up to $250,000 if any minors accessed the covered sexual material as a result of the violation. TEXAS BILL PUSHES STRICTEST SOCIAL MEDIA BAN FOR MINORS IN THE NATION Justices wrote in their opinion that internet access has drastically changed since 1999, when only two out of five American households had a computer. In 2024, 95 percent of American teens had access to a smartphone, with 93 percent reporting frequent internet use. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Elena Kagan argued speech that is obscene for minors is often not obscene for adults. "So adults have a constitutional right to view the very same speech that a State may prohibit for children," Kagan wrote. "And it is a fact of life—and also of law—that adults and children do not live in hermetically sealed boxes. In preventing children from gaining access to 'obscene for children' speech, States sometimes take measures impeding adults from viewing it too—even though, for adults, it is constitutionally protected expression. "But what if Texas could do better—what if Texas could achieve its interest without so interfering with adults' constitutionally protected rights in viewing the speech H. B. 1181 covers? That is the ultimate question on which the Court and I disagree." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Pornhub and other pornography giants have stopped service in Texas and other states where regulations are in place. Print Close URL
Washington Post
19 hours ago
- Politics
- Washington Post
Live updates: Supreme Court decisions expected in major cases
Friday is the final day of the Supreme Court's term — and it will be a big one. This Supreme Court term saw an especially high number of emergency petitions, many focused on requests by President Donald Trump's administration to halt a lower court order that blocked one of his initiatives. These emergency rulings decisions are temporary, while cases play out in lower courts. They are not based on the legal merits, but they can be an indication of how the justices may rule on the matter if it comes before them down the road. The Supreme Court extended its work into July last summer, dropping a bombshell decision on presidential immunity on the first day of the month to close out the term. This year, the justices will end the term four days earlier. Typically, the justices spend the summer teaching, traveling and vacationing, before the next term begins in October. But this summer could feature a heavier workload with a number of emergency appeals related to President Donald Trump's executive orders.
Bloomberg
03-06-2025
- General
- Bloomberg
Mexico Vote Count for Top Court Shows Majority With Morena Ties
By and Maya Averbuch Save Mexico's new Supreme Court will feature a clear majority of justices with direct ties to the country's former leftist president or the ruling Morena party he founded, according to preliminary election results. The leading candidates from Sunday's election for the nine-member high court include three justices who were all originally nominated to the court by ex-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO and the mastermind behind the election. Three other likely winners worked for him in the past or for Morena.
Forbes
02-06-2025
- General
- Forbes
Supreme Court Rejects Challenges To State Weapons Bans
The Supreme Court ruled Monday to let two state gun control laws remain in place, as the 6-3 conservative court declined to take up challenges to Maryland's assault weapons ban and Rhode Island's ban on high-capacity magazines. Justices declined to take up two gases that could have expanded gun rights, including Maryland's ban on all 'assault weapons'—including popular semiautomatic weapons like the AR-15—and Rhode Island's ban on gun owners possessing magazines that contain more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The decisions mean that both laws will stay in place, but it's still possible the court could decide to take up challenges to those laws or other similar state gun control laws in the future. This story is breaking and will be updated.
Washington Post
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Why the Supreme Court quashed Trump's due-process-free deportations
Outside extraordinary situations such as a looming execution, the Supreme Court rarely intervenes in fast-moving events in the middle of the night with limited information. But that's what the justices did on April 19 when a 7-2 majority ordered the Trump administration to halt the deportation of a few dozen Venezuelan migrants in Texas. On Friday, the court explained its reasoning, and the takeaway is that the justices don't like being played for chumps.
