Montana Candidate Asks #SCOTUS Intervention in False Speech in Judicial Election Case

Back in June, Dan T. reported:”A federal district court has denied an injunction against Montana rules restricting false statements by and about judicial candidates (Myers v. Thompson).”

The Ninth Circuit denied relief and now the candidate has petitioned Justice Kennedy at the Supreme Court for emergency relief. The twist here is that this involves campaign speech in a judicial election.

Don’t count out the Court granting some relief in this case (see my piece, A Constitutional Right to Lie in Campaigns and Elections?). This is an issue that cuts somewhat across ideological lines.

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