The Constitutional Right to Lie
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June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Lost in the hoopla over the U.S.Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act is afascinating and important free-speech decision that is one ofthe oddest in the already strange history of the FirstAmendment.
The case, Alvarez v. United States, was all about lies. Thefirst sentence of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s plurality opinion isan instant classic: “Lying was his habit.”