Free Speech v. Paxton

This amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court case Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton (No. 23-1122), was submitted by The Matthew XVIII Group and The Reisman Institute, with legal support from Mary E. McAlister and Vernadette R. Broyles of the Child & Parental Rights Campaign (CPRC), supporting Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, in asking the Supreme Court to affirm the Fifth Circuit’s ruling upholding Texas’ age-verification law for accessing online pornography. The brief argues that  the law protects minors from harmful content, a stance consistent with CPRC’s mission to safeguard children and uphold parental rights. CPRC’s involvement highlights its opposition to the Free Speech Coalition’s (an organization of pornography producers), challenge of the state’s authority to regulate such material to prevent exploitation and harm to youth.