Justices Hear HIV/AIDS-Tied Case While Scattered by Pandemic (1)

Another pandemic was the focus of U.S. Supreme Court arguments Tuesday morning: the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

On day two of the high court’s unprecedented livestream oral arguments, the justices seemed likely to strike down the requirement that foreign entities adopt an explicit policy against prostitution and sex trafficking in order to receive federal funding to combat human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome abroad.

The court struck down the same requirement as it applied to U.S. entities in 2013, saying that it’s “a basic First Amendment principle that freedom of speech prohibits the government from telling people what they ...