The porn industry’s sizable influence aside, it was easy to miss (with all the inauguration buzz) that its cynically named ...

We will get a fair decision that provides helpful guidance and a path forward that allows states to protect children while honoring the First Amendment.

Age verification laws have passed in 19 states since 2023, in hopes of protecting minors from adult content. But critics ...

Brian Shaffer drives 30 minutes from Columbus to celebrate the start of Spring Break with a steak dinner at his father’s house. During dinner, Brian eagerly discusses his upcoming vacation to Miami ...

In 1968, the Supreme Court upheld a law that made it a crime to sell pornographic magazines to young people. But in 2004, the court struck down a federal law intended to protect kids from online ...

Justice Samuel Alito wanted to know. It would have been a strange thing for him to ask, had he not posed the question at Wednesday’s hearing over a Texas law requiring age verification to access ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age ...

The lawyer arguing on behalf of the Free Speech Coalition (the adult entertainment websites), Derek Shaffer, argues it’s up to parents (not websites) to keep inappropriate content from their ...

When questioning attorney Derek Shaffer, representing Free Speech Coalition, on the content of his client's website, the Supreme Court Justices revealed how little they knew about how such ...

Paxton, a case concerning a Texas law restricting access to websites with “sexual material harmful to minors.” Derek Shaffer, counsel for the law’s challengers, argued that the application of rational ...