Social Media Case Tests Limits of Supreme Court's Tech Savvy – Bloomberg Law

As the Supreme Court considered a California law on violent video games in its 2010-11 term, clerks for Justice Stephen Breyer, then 72, set up a large-screen television in his chambers and hooked it up to a game console. Then Justice Elena Kagan came over to play Grand Theft Auto. “There we were, killing everybody left and right,” Kagan said at a 2015 event at Harvard Law School, much to the audience’s amusement.

Breyer “thought that it was all really horrible, really just disgusting and repellent,” Kagan continued. “And I was like, ‘Next round! Next round!’” Their legal …