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Supreme Court allows pro-life group to challenge Ohio ban on campaign false statements
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| 16- June-2014
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Posted on 06/16/2014 8:38:21 AM PDT by topher
he Supreme Court delivered a major victory on Monday to an anti-abortion group that sought to challenge an Ohio law that bans campaign statements deemed to be false.
The justices, in a unanimous decision, ruled that the Susan B. Anthony List can go ahead with a lawsuit challenging the law as a violation of free-speech rights.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: abortion; achillwind; censorship; driehaus; freespeech; ohio; partisanwitchhunt; prolife; scotus; shallmakenolaw; susanbanthony
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Unanimous Decision
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:38:21 AM PDT
by
topher
To: topher
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:39:23 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If youÂ’re litigating against nuns, youÂ’ve probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: topher
Time to take DemonRat (Democrat) Steve Driehaus to the cleaners with the lawsuit...
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:39:38 AM PDT
by
topher
(Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
To: topher
“false” according to whom?
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:39:59 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: topher
It shouldn’t even be a QUESTION. Political speech is PROTECTED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
To: Dr. Sivana
That is the whole point of the Supreme Court decision: this is free speech. Therefore, no one can deem that "Susan B. Anthony" made false statements.
They have thrown the Ohio law out as against free speech...
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:41:40 AM PDT
by
topher
(Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
To: yldstrk
The
whom that decided it was false was quite arbitrary.
Ohio ruled against Susan B. Anthony saying they made false statements.
This is why the Supreme Court made a unanimous decision to strike down the Ohio law: it violated free speech rights.
As we used to say on Freerepublic at one time, this is HUGH (huge).
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:44:18 AM PDT
by
topher
(Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Hence this was a no-brainer for SCOTUS -- both liberals and conservatives agreed this was a violation of Free Speech.
Rarely do you get such a unanimous decision from SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States).
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:45:47 AM PDT
by
topher
(Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
To: topher
I’m surprised Roberts didn’t call it a tax.
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:49:02 AM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
To: topher
Too soon for SCOTUSBLOG.com to have any comments. I imagine someone is frantically work on some comments on this opinion (or not so frantically).
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:49:25 AM PDT
by
topher
(Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
To: topher
That is the whole point of the Supreme Court decision: this is free speech. Therefore, no one can deem that "Susan B. Anthony" made false statements.They have thrown the Ohio law out as against free speech...
The U.S. Supreme Court did no such thing. The Court decided plaintiffs have provided enough evidence to continue with their lawsuit against the Ohio law & remanded the case.
The final word on whether the law itself is constitutional is still years away.
In other words, this was a case/decision about the legal standing of the plaintiffs, not the underlying law.
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:50:43 AM PDT
by
gdani
(Every day, your Govt surveils you more than the day before)
To: topher
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posted on
06/16/2014 8:57:45 AM PDT
by
topher
(Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
To: topher; Lurking Libertarian; Perdogg; JDW11235; Clairity; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; GregNH; ...
FReepmail me to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the SCOTUS ping list.
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posted on
06/16/2014 9:05:07 AM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: Colonel_Flagg
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posted on
06/16/2014 9:18:02 AM PDT
by
Principled
(Obama: Unblemished by success.)
To: SoFloFreeper
It shouldnt even be a QUESTION. Political speech is PROTECTED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT If the "political speech" is demonstrably false, why don't politicians simply bring a lawsuit against the perpetrator? It would only take a few victories in court before all political campaigns straightened out/up.
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posted on
06/16/2014 9:18:09 AM PDT
by
Go Gordon
(Barack McGreevey Obama)
To: topher
Um - Obamacare DOES use taxpayer money for abortions.
Global Warming has been deemed true by our government.
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posted on
06/16/2014 9:34:11 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
To: topher
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posted on
06/16/2014 9:47:14 AM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: BuckeyeTexan
Any 2nd Amendment/gun rights/concealed carry cases before SCOTUS?
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posted on
06/16/2014 10:07:07 AM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!! (Keeper of the Sick Individuals pinglist))
To: topher
Before we Pro-Life folks get too excited by this ruling, be advised this is both complex AND dual-edged.
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posted on
06/16/2014 10:12:17 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: DCBryan1
Nope. 14 more decisions are due before the end of June, but none of 2A significance.
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posted on
06/16/2014 10:36:37 AM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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