Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to Age-Verification Law for Porn Sites

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of individual users in an effort to restrict access to minors violates constitutional free speech protections. The justices took up an appeal by a trade group representing adult entertainment performers and companies of a lower court's decision upholding the Republican-led state's age-verification measure, finding that it likely did not violate the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment safeguard against government infringement of speech.