Statehouses Eye Texas Porn Age-Check Case As They Push New Bills

Nearly two-thirds of states could soon be covered by laws requiring porn sites to verify the ages of users as backers continue their legislative campaign, buoyed by the US Supreme Court’s recent oral arguments on the constitutionality of such restrictions.

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have introduced bills to join the 19 states that have already enacted porn age-check laws that seek to keep children from viewing explicit content online. The effort is contingent on how the high court decides on whether a Texas law violates the First Amendment rights of adults in a challenge brought by free ...