"U.S. justices agree to hear challenge to Ohio speech law"

[applegrove]

U.S. justices agree to hear challenge to Ohio speech law

By Lawrence Hurley at Reuters

http://news.yahoo.com/u-justices-agree-hear-challenge-ohio-speech-law-223111317.html

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By Lawrence Hurley





WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by two conservative groups that assert that an Ohio law that imposes penalties for making knowingly false statements about political candidates violates their right to free speech.

The groups, Susan B. Anthony List and the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes, say that the possibility that the Ohio statute would be enforced against them deterred them from issuing statements during the 2010 election campaign criticizing a Democratic congressman for supporting President Barack Obama's healthcare law.

Steven Driehaus, at the time a U.S. congressman from Ohio, had earlier filed a complaint with the commission concerning the Susan B. Anthony List. Driehaus lost his re-election bid and the complaint was withdrawn.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, the group's president, said in a statement on Friday that the Ohio law "demonstrates complete disregard for the constitutional right of citizens to criticize their elected officials."





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[applegrove]

1. Now "lying" is "criticizing".

[mythology]

4. We live in a world where Fox "News" won the right to lie

Sadly, this Supreme Court probably won't have learned from the horrid Citizens United case and rule against these two organizations.

[Ranchemp.]

2. This is going to be interesting. eom

[NuclearDem]

3. This isn't legal?

Shit, could've fooled me for the last five years.