This Week in the Circuits: Texas Defends Social Media Law to Fifth Circuit

Welcome to This Week in the Circuits, a look at the most significant cases before federal appeals courts.

Texas’ fight to wall off children from the ugly side of social media while tip-toeing around the First Amendment heads to the Fifth Circuit this week.

On Monday, the state will argue to a three-judge panel that a lower court wrongly ruled in favor of a number of groups, including a trade association representing Meta, Apple, and Google, in finding that the law likely chills protected speech.

Represented by lawyers for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), the ...