From questions asked on November 2 by Supreme Court justices in oral arguments, in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association. The case concerns a 2005 California law that prohibits the sale or rental to minors of video games that allow players to kill, maim, or sexually assault human characters. Video-game producers argued that the games are speech protected under the First Amendment.

justice scalia: What’s a deviant violent video game? As opposed to what? A normal violent video game?

justice sotomayor: One study says that the effect of violence is the same…