Robocall Ban Upheld, Broadened by Supreme Court in Speech Case
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Source: Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal ban on robocalls to mobile phones, rejecting a bid to topple the law on free speech grounds.
As part of the splintered ruling, the court broadened the 1991 measure, tossing out a 2015 exception for calls made to collect debt owed to the federal government.
Writing the courts lead opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that exception favors speech made for collecting government debt over political and other speech, rendering it constitutionally suspect.
The ruling is a defeat for political groups that had sought a new avenue for campaign activity in the months leading up to the November election. The challengers, which included the Oregon Democratic Party and Washington State Democratic Central Committee, sought to overturn the entire robocall ban.
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Warpy
(110,913 posts)I despise robocalls, all of them, I don't care who's making them or how pious the reason.
Free speech doesn't guarantee anyone an audience, especially an unwilling audience of people who can't use devices they're paying for because they're tied up with robocalls.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,481 posts)If it had been a case brought by Republicans, the decision might have gone 5-4 the other way.
Polybius
(15,239 posts)LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)JudyM
(29,122 posts)Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142530806
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