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Today, Explained

Porn on the docket

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court has a long history of taking on cases about porn, including one they decided on Friday. Vox's Ian Millhiser explains how that history of First Amendment rulings once meant the justices had to watch porn in a basement. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey and Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Devan Schwartz, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Photoillustration of Pornhub logo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On their way out the door for summer break last Friday, the nine justices of the Supreme Court

0:06.1

handed down several rulings that days later still have people asking, what, why, and how will

0:12.7

that work?

0:14.6

The court did not strike down birthright citizenship, though it did give President Trump more

0:19.6

power.

0:20.2

It's been an amazing period of time this last hour.

0:24.1

By limiting courts from slapping nationwide injunctions on the president's executive orders.

0:29.3

The court also ruled that parents can opt kids out of a class if they're reading books with

0:33.6

LGBTQ characters.

0:35.8

We talked you might remember to a concerned Muslim parent two summers ago.

0:39.2

Through that book, there is a discussion about use of pronouns.

0:42.9

They introduced transgender, non-binary.

0:45.0

In our opinion, not age appropriate for our six-year-old.

0:48.9

And they issued a ruling on porn that is also a ruling on free speech

0:53.7

that could have implications for you if

0:56.2

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