The justice asked if Pornhub was "like the old Playboy magazine" with "essays by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?”

The high court held a hearing about a Texas law that requires age verification to access sexual content online, in a legal challenge from the adult industry.

Justices Gorsuch and Alito asked the lawyers representing the pornography industry, during a First Amendment case Wednesday about state laws requiring obscene websites to verify their users' ages, whether they also host non-pornographic content,

In Supreme Court oral arguments over a potentially seismic change to the internet, the most memorable question came from Justice Samuel Alito. “One of the parties here is the owner of Pornhub, right?” Alito asked Derek Shaffer,

Justice Samuel Alito sparked a flurry of quips for his quips during a Supreme Court hearing into a Texas law requiring age verification for pornography websites. During the Wednesday proceeding, the justice asked attorneys representing the Free Speech Coalition if one of their clients,

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mockingly probed whether Pornhub has articles on its adult platform similar to the “old Playboy magazine” during oral arguments