Desperate to avoid being sentenced on the 34 felony counts of which was found guilty, Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to let him off the hook, and he happened to have a chat on the phone with Justice Sam Alito just before doing so.
Is Pornhub like Playboy? 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 sexual content online. An adult industry trade group and others challenged the law on constitutional grounds, arguing that the verification process imposes too great a burden on adult access to legal content.
” That led the challengers to argue, among other things, that the law is “overinclusive” because it applies to sites with “up to two-thirds material that is not obscene even for minors.” While the industry might not be able to count on Alito’s vote, it’s unclear what the court as a whole will do with the case. Technically, the question presented to the justices isn’t whether the Texas law is constitutional, but rather which legal standard courts should use to analyze the law. The 5th U.S.
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