| Subject: Re: [EL] Check out Wall Street Journal: The ACLU Stands Up for Pro-Lifers-Really | SBA |
| From: "Smith, Brad" <BSmith@law.capital.edu> |
| Date: 11/9/2010, 2:57 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
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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