In a remarkable coup for a game-oriented site, Laws of Play’s Anthony Prestia had the opportunity to hang out with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia - and used the duration to ask Scalia how he might regard video game legislation, should it ever come before the Court.

Scalia, the second most senior member of the Court, is a noted conservative. Prestia writes:

I asked [Justice Scalia] whether… he believed that state laws banning the sale of mature-rated video games to minors ran afoul of the First Amendment…

Justice Scalia replied that he did believe such legislation was constitutional. He began by explaining his belief that sound constitutional precedent holds that minors may be subjected to prohibitions that adults are not

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