Supreme Court Upholds Texas Law Requiring Age Checks for Pornography

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a Texas law that seeks to limit minors’ access to pornography on the Internet, ruling that it does not violate the First Amendment to require people to verify their age through measures like the submission of government-issued IDs. The Texas law applies to any commercial website “more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors” and and requires such sites to use one of several methods to verify that users are 18 or older.