When it comes to statutes curbing access to lawful sexual content—material that’s neither obscene nor child pornographic—the US Supreme Court sometimes bends its normal First Amendment rules of review ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Protesters supporting transgender athletes competing in women's sports wave a transgender pride flag outside the Supreme Court on ...

On June 27, 2025, the United States Supreme Court weighed in on the ongoing debate about age verification requirements for websites, holding that it is constitutional for a state to require websites ...

A central focus of yesterday’s Supreme Court arguments on state laws protecting girls’ sports was whether “as-applied” equal protection challenges are available under intermediate scrutiny. That’s ...

Tuesday’s Sixth Circuit decision in OPAWL—Building AAPI Feminist Leadership v. Yost offers a welcome example of how constitutional originalism can be the antidote to muddled case law. In a per curiam ...

I recently explained how the decision is patently narrow, applying only to age-verification mandates targeting access to sexual content that, in Justice Clarence Thomas’s words for the majority, “the ...

A group of pornography companies and an adult performer sued, arguing that H.B. 1181 amounts to a content-based restriction on speech and therefore triggers “strict scrutiny”—the most demanding form ...

Strict Scrutiny is a podcast focusing on the Supreme Court of the United States and its associated legal culture. It is hosted by Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, and Kate Shaw. Litman is a professor of ...

The Iowa Supreme Court upheld gun restrictions in several 4-3 rulings during its recently ended 2024-25 term, sparking debate over the state's 2022 gun rights amendment. The amendment, mirroring the U ...

There was never much reason to hope that the Supreme Court, which heard two cases on Tuesday asking whether transgender women have a right to play women’s high school or college sports, was going to ...