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Are you absolutely sick to death of all the snarky campaign ads on television?

Yeah, me too.

November 5th cannot come fast enough. Lets get this midterm election over!

Nasty cracks, smarmy innuendo, selective editing of opponents interviews and downright lies. Isnt there something that should be done to a candidate who deliberately tries to deceive the electorate?

Actually, 16 states have laws that punish candidates and independent organizations that recklessly make false statements during an election.

Thats the good news.

The bad news: In the first real test of those so-called political-lie laws, the courts ruled they are an unconstitutional violation of freedom of speech.

Yes, you read that right. The First Amendment gives us all a constitutional right to lie.

Im not for anything that erodes our First Amendment rights. But doesnt it sound odd that the law protects those who deliberately choose to deceive the electorate?

The rest is here:

Bald lies in politics have First Amendment blessing