Rep. Laurie Schlegel
@RepSchlegel
Louisiana State Representative, District 82, Chairwoman House Education, Licensed Professional Counselor, Wife & Mom
“Big Porn is a $100 billion-a-year global business that many "experts”… said was too big [to] deflate with mere state-level legislation.” As @ReaganWorld writes, thankfully state legislators didn’t listen! Appreciate the shoutout and the recognition of how states are stepping…
👇🏼💯@AnnieChestnut “The AI moratorium doesn’t stop China. It stops states like Texas, Tennessee, and Utah. It doesn’t defend innovation. It defends Silicon Valley from scrutiny. And it doesn’t protect kids. It protects Big Tech.” dailysignal.com/2025/06/28/kee…
.@DailyCaller: “Any Republican who votes to strip this moratorium out of the bill is voting, number one, to give a massive gift to communist China,” Cruz said. dailycaller.com/2025/06/29/exc…
👇🏼 💯 Gov. @SarahHuckabee “If Congress’s glacial movement to protect kids from the harms of social media is any indication, the body would be paralyzed by industry lobbying and fail to act.”
States are leading the way on commonsense AI protections - like bans on AI child pornography. But Congress is threatening to stop states from enforcing these protections for TEN YEARS. Read my op-ed why this is unacceptable ⤵️ governor.arkansas.gov/news_post/icym…
We now need a federal law mandating third-party age verification for access to any website that allows p*rnography per terms of service. The U.S. Supreme Court has deemed age verification for online p*rn constitutional. @SenatorDurbin @HawleyMO @SenBlumenthal @MarshaBlackburn
The “patchwork” they claim to fear is exactly what happens when Congress fails to act. If Congress won’t pass meaningful legislation to protect kids online, then states will. In fact, Louisiana already passed a Duty of Care law modeled after KOSA this session. States aren’t…
The fallout from the fight against the AI rules freeze has begun
Another big win for kids! The AI moratorium was stripped from the OBBB. To summarize what Senator Blackburn said before the vote…. Congress has had a hard time passing laws around emerging technology but you know who hasn’t- our states. They are the ones protecting children…
This is how you take on big tech! Thank you Senator @MarshaBlackburn for your leadership! Let's remove this provision added by Congress to deny states’ rights to defend our citizens and pass President @realDonaldTrump’s One Big Beautiful Bill!
Boom. New Blackburn amendment with Cantwell to strip Cruz 10 year AI moratorium.
Thank you @MarshaBlackburn . The people are with you, the states are with you. Continue to stand for our children. We protect kids, not Big Tech.
🚨 The moratorium saga continues. @MarshaBlackburn has pulled her support for the compromise language with @tedcruz.
"Opposition to the moratorium is bipartisan, transcends income brackets, and unites all age groups, our poll found. But none are so overwhelmingly against it as people between from age 18 to 34, who oppose the moratorium by an incredible margin of 7 to 1, with 70 percent against…
Join me and legal experts discussing the historic Supreme Court ruling that found online age verification laws constitutional! Louisiana started a movement in 2022 when it passed the first age verification law in the country to protect kids from online hardcore porn. Other…
SAVE THE DATE: This Monday, June 30, at 7PM EDT, join The Heritage Foundation and the @approject on X Spaces for expert analysis on the Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton! You won’t find a better breakdown anywhere else.
“I will continue to aggressively enforce HB 1181. All pornography companies lacking proper age verification safeguards on their sites should consider themselves on notice, because they’re violating Texas law.” @KenPaxtonTX 🔥🔥🔥 texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/…
Thank you @EkGaetan , @NCOSE and all the child advocacy groups for all your support and dedication to protecting our kids from sexual exploitation!
This child protective law originated in Louisiana, in the mind and office of @RepSchlegel, the Mother of the Age Verification Movement. Thank you Rep Schlegel and TY to @AngelaPaxtonTX who passed it in TX in 2023. nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/… via @NYTimes @NCOSE @FightTheNewDrug
This is why states are protecting kids ⬇️ “For instance, in 2019, Pornhub, one of the websites involved in this case, published 1.36 million hours—or over 150 years—of new content. Many of these readily accessible videos portray…
Thank you to my Governor @LAGovJeffLandry for standing up for our state and making sure we can still protect our citizens especially children from the misuse of AI. Congress needs to remove the AI moratorium. Do not take away states’ power to protect our people.
🚨🚨 17 *Republican* governors ask Congress to remove the AI moratorium from the GOP megabill. "There is one small portion of it that threatens to undo all the work states have done to protect our citizens from the misuse of artificial intelligence." s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2598…
🚨 BREAKING: In 2022, Louisiana passed the nation’s first age-verification law to protect kids from online porn, which was carefully drafted to survive constitutional review. Over 20 states soon followed including Texas. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that approach in a…
What Louisiana representative @RepSchlegel has done - however you feel about the issue of free access to porn - is rather astounding, in light of the multibillion dollar porn industry’s popularity and power. New from me for @TheFP open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/…
States should not be punished for trying to protect their citizens from the harms of AI. It’s why 37 state attorneys general and governors across the political spectrum have spoken out against a federal moratorium on the regulation of AI.
I strongly support President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, but Congress burying a provision to strip away the right of any state to regulate AI is the antithesis of what our Founders envisioned. Congress' proposed ban on any state regulation of AI for 10 years would strike…
🎯 Louisiana also has laws banning deepfake AI child porn, common sense protections in the absence of federal regulation. It’s one thing for Congress to act and include preemption. But blocking states without any federal solution leaves kids unprotected. @SenateGOP needs to…
🚩BIG RED FLAG: The Senate parliamentarian just OK’d a 10-year freeze on state AI laws in the “Big Beautiful Bill.” That means if the bill passes in its current form, Texas wouldn’t be able to enforce the common-sense protections to protect our kids from things like deepfake AI…
Horrible news today of yet more instances of political violence with the shooting of Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and State Senator John Hoffman. There can be no tolerance of political violence and it must be stopped. Join me in praying for their families.
Ty Senators @HawleyMO , @RonJohnsonWI , @MarshaBlackburn & @SenRickScott I hope my Senators join you. Why limit state’s rights when you have Mark Zuckerberg pitching AI chatbots to kids? Big Tech needs to be reigned in when it comes protecting our kids not given a 10 year free…
NEWS: Opposition to AI moratorium grows. Sens Ron Johnson and Rick Scott said they oppose restricting states regulating AI Them plus Hawley and Blackburn that’s 4 who oppose it. House conservatives also oppose it. And several GOP Sens have also rejected endorsing the move