“Proposal to fact-check campaign claims in Maine hits resistance”

Kennebec Journal: “Gov. LePage wants reviews to deter false statements, but the ACLU of Maine says his idea is unconstitutional, and that making a government agency the ‘truth police’ is a bigger threat to democracy.”

On the constitutional question, see my A Constitutional Right to Lie in Campaigns and Elections?, 74 Montana Law Review 53 (2013).

 

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