Supreme Court to decide cases over online porn access, vapes

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will decide disputes over online access to pornography in Texas, Food and Drug Administration approval of e-cigarettes and a federal sentencing law, adding to the issues it will tackle in the next term that starts in October.

The Texas case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, comes from challengers backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other free speech groups to a state law which requires pornography websites to verify a user’s age before allowing them to access content “harmful to minors.”

The groups said the law places too many burdens on adults’ ability to access adult content to be constitutional, which includes exposing their personal information over the internet.

The challengers told the justices in a filing that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit “openly defies” Supreme Court precedent on free speech to uphold the law.

—CQ-Roll Call

Fetterman calls Abandon Biden movement dumb and defends Biden’s debate performance on Fox News

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., criticized the Abandon Biden movement as part of his fierce defense of President Joe Biden in the midst of a post-debate panic among Democrats.

Abandon Biden is a group of Muslim activists and allies who previously supported Biden and want to punish him for supporting Israel in its war on Hamas, which began in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel and has resulted in thousands of deaths in Gaza. The national movement has focused its efforts on swing states like Pennsylvania, where it launched in February, and Michigan, where it launched in December.

“That whole Abandon Biden thing, that’s the dumbest sh-- I’ve ever heard,” said Fetterman, a devout supporter of Israel, in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" with Shannon Bream.

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