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Mississippi social media law upheld
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Mississippi social media law stands — for now
The Supreme Court declined to block Mississippi from enforcing its social media age-verification law against nine major platforms, for now.
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In an emergency ruling Thursday, the justices denied internet trade group NetChoice’s request to reinstate a lower court’s order protecting social media giants like Meta, X and YouTube from the new requirements.
The Supreme Court did not explain its order or disclose the vote count, as is typical in emergency cases.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, however, wrote a solo opinion cautioning that NetChoice is likely to ultimately succeed on its First Amendment claims even though he was siding against the group at this stage.
“In short, under this Court’s case law as it currently stands, the Mississippi law is likely unconstitutional,” Kavanaugh’s brief opinion reads.
“Nonetheless, because NetChoice has not sufficiently demonstrated that the balance of harms and equities favors it at this time, I concur in the Court’s denial of the application for interim relief,” the conservative justice continued.
NetChoice had asked the court to intervene after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit lifted the district judge’s decision shielding the platforms from the 2024 law without explanation.
“Neither NetChoice nor this Court can know why the Fifth Circuit........
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