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Related: About this forumSupreme Court Will Tackle Case on Whether It’s Okay to Lie in Political Ads
Supreme Court Will Tackle Case on Whether Its Okay to Lie in Political Ads
A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can put its boots on, but should the government give the truth boots a head start? The Supreme Court is taking on that very issue in the upcoming months: whether the government has a right to police false speech in political advertising, specifically concerning the case of an anti-abortion group that wanted to put up a billboard going after an Ohio Democrats abortion voting record.
Back in 2010, Susan B. Anthony List wanted to run a billboard targeting Steve Driehaus for his abortion record, with the proposed message Shame on Steve Driehaus! Driehaus voted FOR taxpayer-funded abortion. Driehaus complained, and the billboard was not put up.
Theres been a fierce legal battle back and forth for years about this, and finally the Supreme Court is taking it up. Now, Susan B. Anthony List insists that the ad is not false, but the case they took to the Supreme Court is based on the premise that false political speech should be criminalized.
Today the Supreme Court of the United States announced it will consider the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) petition involving a First Amendment challenge to Ohios false statement law, which criminalizes false political speech and empowers a state agency to determine what constitutes true and false political speech
We are thrilled at the opportunity to have our arguments heard at the Supreme Court and hope that not only will SBA Lists First Amendment rights be affirmed, but those of all Americans, said Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of SBA List. The Ohio Election Commission statute demonstrates complete disregard for the Constitutional right of citizens to criticize their elected officials.
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Supreme Court Will Tackle Case on Whether It’s Okay to Lie in Political Ads (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jan 2014
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)1. I thought that it already was legal to lie in political ads ...
but then, I realized I accidentally turned on Fox ...
BobUp
(347 posts)3. No, not really....
Keeps inching forward ... though inches won't be enough to meet the pledge
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/promises/walk-o-meter/promise/526/create-250000-new-jobs/
http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/mike_ivey/latest-job-numbers-not-good-for-scott-walker-or-those/article_138ea562-53a0-11e3-9bdc-0019bb2963f4.html
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)2. Interesting
Steve Driehaus is a Catholic from the Cincinnati west side. My daughter worked her but off in his election, and he won one term. This would be personal to him, because he and Steve Chabot have similar views on abortion.