President Obama had his Supreme Court attorney, the U.S. Solicitor General, present a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a claimant whose case alleged that political lying is 100% protected by the First Amendment’s Free Speech provision and so no state may issue any law limiting the right of anyone to lie in a political campaign. The U.S. Supreme Court, in the 2014 case of Susan B. Anthony List v. Dreihaus, issued a decison 9-to-0 (unanimous) endorsing that view: the public has no right to be provided the truth, but politicians and their monied backers have an unlimited right to deceive the public in any political campaign, the 9 ‘Justices’ unanimously agreed.
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http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/an-obama-statement-packed-with-lies.html
There. It's official.
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