| Subject: Re: [EL] Check out Wall Street Journal: The ACLU Stands Up for Pro-Lifers—Really | SBA |
| From: Sean Parnell |
| Date: 11/9/2010, 12:22 PM |
| To: "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu> |
These “truth in campaign” laws (aka “false statements,” etc) are
about as direct an affront to the First Amendment as exists in modern law. Glad
to see that while the ACLU has “moderated” its defense of the First Amendment
on campaign finance issues it hasn’t retreated from opposing the noxious notion
that the government has any business deciding which political speech should be
deemed “true,” and woe to any who would dare to dissent from such
government-approved “truth.”
Sean Parnell
President
Center for Competitive Politics
http://www.campaignfreedom.org
http://www.twitter.com/seanparnellccp
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From: election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu
[mailto:election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu] On Behalf Of JBoppjr@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 3:14 PM
To: rick.hasen@lls.edu; election-law@mailman.lls.edu
Subject: [EL] Check out Wall Street Journal: The ACLU Stands Up for
Pro-Lifers—Really | SBA
I represent the Susan B. Anthony List in
this case where a Congressional candidate has complained to the Ohio Election
Commission that a campaign ad is false, which said that Obamacare contains
taxpayer-funded abortions, and that they should be punished for it. I
believe that this violates the First Amendment in part because the government
has not proper role in determining what is true or false political speech. The
ACLU Ohio agrees. I wonder what others think. Jim Bopp