As has been well-reported, there is a long list of apparent ethical failings by certain members of the court over the last two years — mostly Justice Thomas but also Justices Alito and Sonia Sotomayor.
The justice asked if Pornhub was "like the old Playboy magazine" with "essays by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?”
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, 74, became the talk of the internet after asking about how PornHub compared to Playboy Magazine during a hearing on Wednesday regarding Texas H.B. 1181.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether Texas is violating the First Amendment by requiring age verification to view pornography.
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Alito, one of six conservative justices on the nine-member Supreme Court, confirmed he took a call from Trump on Tuesday, one day before Trump's lawyers filed a petition asking the court to halt his New York sentencing scheduled for Friday.
The high court held a hearing about a Texas law that requires age verification to access sexual content online, in a legal challenge from the adult industry.
Conservatives said the decision from Mark Zuckerberg vindicated free speech protections for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose COVID-19 posts containing misinformation were taken down.
Justice Samuel Alito sparked a flurry of quips for his quips during a Supreme Court hearing into a Texas law requiring age verification for pornography websites. During the Wednesday proceeding, the justice asked attorneys representing the Free Speech Coalition if one of their clients,
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from President-elect Trump’s hush money criminal case in a
Senate Democrats are furious that President-elect Trump has reached out to conservative Justice Samuel Alito amid a push by Trump for the high court to halt his criminal sentencing. Alito has repeatedly angered Democrats over reports that he took expensive ...