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Supreme Court to consider Texas age-verification requirement for pornography websites

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The Supreme Court is set to decide Wednesday whether the lower court applied the wrong standard of review to Texas ' age-verification law.

The law requires websites to verify their visitors ' ages to ensure they are at least 18 years old .

Opponents say the law infringes on the First Amendment because it burdens adults' access to protected speech.

A group of 24 states is urging the Supreme Court to uphold the lower court's decision.

The Biden administration says the law is subject to the most demanding form of judicial scrutiny.

But the Free Speech Coalition says it's underinclusive since search engines and social media sites don't have to comply with age-verification.

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