Roy & Lee file amicus brief to protect minors from porn site access

WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday, Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) and Senator Mike Lee (UT) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton- the case challenging Texas law H.B. 1181, which requires age verification for pornography.

The brief supports the State of Texas' position that the federal and state legislatures have the duty to protect children from exposure to online pornography by asking the Supreme Court to reaffirm its longstanding rule that the government can prohibit the dissemination of pornography to children by imposing age-access restrictions on distributors.

Representative Roy said, "The government has an obvious and unquestionable duty in keeping children off porn sites; decades of relatively unfettered access to obscene online content under insufficient policies have done tremendous damage to our country. Texas' law does this by simply requiring adults to prove their age, as should be the case with age-restricted items. That's why I expect Attorney General Paxton's case to succeed at the Supreme Court and am proud to join Mike Lee in defense of it."

Senator Lee said, "Companies are profiting from exposing children to adult content, and it must stop. This initiative by Texas reflects the age-verification measures I am fighting for at the federal level with the SCREEN Act, and American families everywhere should be cheering these efforts to protect kids online."

Read the full amicus briefhere.

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