Supreme Court justices attend the 60th inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Ricky Carioti /The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The case will continue to play out in the lower courts, and is expected to make its way back to the Supreme Court for full consideration at a later date.
At issue is Mississippi's sweeping social media law, known as H.B. 1126. The law, passed by the state in 2024, blocks young people from accessing popular social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Reddit without express parental consent.
It also requires social media sites to take additional steps to verify the ages of users before allowing them to create accounts, and to "develop and implement a strategy" to shield young people from exposure to harmful material.
Sites who fail to comply can be fined up to $10,000 per violation, and, in certain cases, could face criminal penalties.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. (Reuters)
In its emergency appeal to the high court, lawyers for NetChoice took aim at the lack of explanation from the lower court.
"Neither NetChoice nor this Court can know why the Fifth Circuit believed this law satisfies the First Amendment’s stringent demands or deviated from the seven other decisions enjoining similar laws," lawyers said in their appeal to the high court, arguing they would face "immediate, irreparable" injury should the law be allowed to go into effect.
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The Supreme Court's emergency decision comes as a handful of other states have moved to implement similar age-verification legislation— including Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, and Utah.
NetChoice, for its part, has led similar lawsuits challenging social media legislation in other states such as Florida and Texas earlier this year.
Breanne Deppisch is a national politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the Trump administration, with a focus on the Justice Department, FBI, and other national news.
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