Tech Platforms v. Free Speech: Showdown at SCOTUS
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
4.5 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Case in Point, we host a lively roundtable discussion between Host Sarah Parshall Perry, and fellow legal fellows GianCarlo Canaparo and Jack Fitzhenry. What went down at the Supreme Court this week in two huge cases on use of online tech platforms?
In one case concerning TikTok restrictions and national security, and in another on restricting minors' access to online porn in Texas, the Justices wrestled bigly with constitutional questions. Listen in as the trio breaks it down. We cover that, breaking legal news and more on this week's episode of Case in Point.
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| 0:00.0 | Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself. |
| 0:04.7 | Welcome to Case and Points, the legal show for regular people. |
| 0:08.4 | It is Thursday, January 16th. |
| 0:10.2 | I am, as always, your host, Sarah Partial Perry, a senior legal fellow here at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:17.8 | But I am a regular lawyer talking to you, regular people, eliminating Washington |
| 0:24.3 | newspeak on everything from the law to executive orders and helping you understand why the law |
| 0:30.5 | matters in your life. There is lots of legal news to cover before we actually get to our program |
| 0:36.8 | today with two of my fellow legal |
| 0:39.5 | fellows here at the Heritage Foundation on two very high profile cases that were just heard at |
| 0:45.8 | the Supreme Court. What were their impressions of oral arguments? Before we get to that first, |
| 0:50.5 | let me tell you it's the most wonderful time of the year, not Christmas, not New |
| 0:55.0 | years. Oh, no, it's inauguration season. We have started to hear confirmation hearings on Capitol |
| 1:00.9 | Hill for a number of incoming President Trump's cabinet nominees. All 15 of them, Pam Bondi, |
| 1:07.3 | was actually questioned yesterday. And Pete Hegseth faced some pretty significant grilling |
| 1:13.2 | in the Senate as well. |
| 1:14.5 | Doug Bergum, Tulsi Gabbard. |
| 1:16.9 | Those nominations have been postponed. |
| 1:19.6 | They need to apparently have their background checks completed. |
| 1:23.2 | So it's likely, in fact, virtually guaranteed |
| 1:26.2 | that the president will not start this term with a full cabinet. |
| 1:29.6 | Now, last time around, he didn't have a full cabinet until the end of April in 2017. |
| 1:36.5 | And that's simply cabinet secretaries. |
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