Supreme Court Struggles With Porn Site Age Verification Case (1)

Supreme Court justices seemed to agree that states should be able to protect kids from viewing pornography online, but expressed concern that Texas’ age verification law infringes on the free speech rights of adults to view such content.

If states can regulate obscene material in brick-and-mortar stores under the court’s current precedent, Justice Elena Kagan suggested during arguments on Wednesday that there should be a way to translate that to the world of the Internet.

Age verification for “printed smut” requires the same kind of documentary proof that the Texas law does, she said.

Though Chief Justice John Roberts said ...