A Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of their users will remain after the Supreme Court declined an emergency appeal.  Here’s what the court said about House Bill 1181 and what happens next.

The state can enforce the law requiring adult websites, including Pornhub, to ask users to verify they are 18 years or older.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce age-verification requirements for porn sites, rejecting a request from the adult entertainment industry to block the law on First Amendment grounds.

The Supreme Court will soon decide what, if any, immunity Donald Trump enjoys for his efforts to hold onto power contrary to the will of the electorate. And by all indications, Trump will probably like the result.

It’s hard to hear them talk. To hear them speak as if they pursued actual inquiry — instead of Federalist Society shop talk. To see the masquerade. They’re delivering gold for Donald Trump in last week’s insurrectionist-immunity case. Like you knew they would.

Summer, protesters gather at the U.S. Supreme Court while arguments are heard. See how the 2024 docket is rallying activists.