Justices Mull Scrutiny Test In Porn Site Age Verification Case

Several justices on the Supreme Court seemed eager this week to debate the constitutionality of a Texas law that requires porn sites to verify the age of users to keep kids from viewing obscene content online.

But the court was only asked in the case argued Wednesday to answer whether the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied the correct standard when assessing whether the law violated the free speech rights of adults.

“I don’t know if there is going to be sufficient alignment on how to get to the answers here,” said Mark Brennan, who works with ...