A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that Texas may be permitted to require some form of age verification for pornographic sites, but left open the possibility that deeper First Amendment questions may not be resolved immediately.

Texas and 18 other states have recently enacted laws requiring pornography websites to verify the ages of their visitors.

The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access. Last year a federal appeals court in New Orleans allowed the state to enforce the law,

The oral arguments lasted two hours with opposing sides making their case on whether the Texas law infringes on the free speech rights of adults.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is fighting to uphold a Texas law he says is keeping the pornography industry from targeting children with harmful content.

Speaking with Fox News Digital after oral arguments in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, Attorney General Ken Paxton explained that the case before the Supreme Court this week is all about protecting children from content that will harm them.

The Supreme Court may not comprise the “nine greatest experts on the internet,” as Justice Elena Kagan once quipped, but they’re getting no shortage of opportunities to learn. On Wednesday morning, while the tech world awaited the high court’s ruling on TikTok,