WASHINGTON — Torturing, maiming, decapitating and urinating on human beings are rare topics in U.S. Supreme Court arguments. But the justices today heard all of them as they entered the world of video gaming in a First Amendment challenge to a California law.
By the end of arguments in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association — arguments peppered with references to “Postal 2,” “Mortal Kombat” and other games — several justices appeared sympathetic to California’s effort to prohibit the sale and rental of violent video games to minors. And others seemed uneasy about creating a First Amendment exception for violence, an exception that could swallow books, movies and other violence-laden forms of expression.
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