Court Opinion

ID: 9842177
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-22 20:13:18.989492+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:09:51.467794
License: Public Domain

Justice Scalia,
concurring.
I join the plurality opinion because I think it represents a correct application of our jurisprudence concerning regulation of the “secondary effects” of pornographic speech. As I have said elsewhere, however, in a case such as this our First Amendment traditions make “secondary effects” analysis quite unnecessary. The Constitution does not prevent those communities that wish to do so from regulating, or indeed entirely suppressing, the business of pander*444ing sex. See, e. g., Erie v. Pap's A. M., 529 U. S. 277, 310 (2000) (Scalia, J., concurring in judgment); FW/PBS, Inc. v. Dallas, 493 U. S. 215, 256-261 (1990) (Scalia, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).