The Supreme Court declined an emergency request on Thursday to halt enforcement of a Mississippi law requiring age-verification for social media websites, allowing the statute to be enforced as litigation continues in a lower court.

The unsigned unanimous order issued by the high court included a concurrence from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who argued NetChoice, the internet trade group that brought the petition to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, failed to show that the “balance of harms and equities favors it at this time with its request.” While he and the other eight justices denied the emergency stay, Kavanaugh said he believes NetChoice is likely to succeed on the merits of the case.

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