Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. made a strong appeal to the Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold the government’s rules against broadcast indecency, asserting the need to preserve a television and radio “safe haven” devoid of foul language and nudity amidst a proliferation of new and coarser media.
Whether his plea will save the rules from being overturned on First Amendment grounds is uncertain, but Verrilli did seem to stave off a full-scale review of precedents that have been used to justify regulating broadcasters differently from other media.
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