Damon Root: Ohio Silences Political Speech, Gets Hauled Before Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument this
month in the free speech case Susan B. Anthony List v.
Driehaus. As Senior Editor Damon Root explains, the case arose
on account of an Ohio law which makes it a misdemeanor offense to
make “false” statements about political candidates. Who gets to
decide what counts as false? Who else? A state agency staffed by
political appointees endowed with the power to selectively silence
political speech.

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