On the recordJune 27, 2025
No one doubts that the distribution of sexually explicit speech to children, of the sort involved here, can cause great harm.
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Elena Kagan
No one doubts that the distribution of sexually explicit speech to children, of the sort involved here, can cause great harm.
Kagan emphasized the need to protect adult expression under the First Amendment.
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When political figures of any stripe are trying to intimidate judges and justices to do things that they like, rather than the things that they don’t, that’s where we really have crossed the line.
Right now visitors walk into the court and that’s where they are checked. That’s where they are sent through the magnetometer and checked for weapons and so forth.
It is turning over information about yourself and your viewing habits—respecting speech many find repulsive—to a website operator, and then to… who knows?