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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 12:48 PM Jul 2020

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 court’s 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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Robocall Ban Upheld, Broadened by Supreme Court in Speech Case (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
Good. I don't know what the party was thinking Warpy Jul 2020 #1
Completely agree. But maybe that's what got Kavanaugh. hvn_nbr_2 Jul 2020 #4
Dupe Polybius Jul 2020 #2
And I just got one on my mobile phone LeftInTX Jul 2020 #3
Locking. JudyM Jul 2020 #5

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
1. Good. I don't know what the party was thinking
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 01:16 PM
Jul 2020

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)
4. Completely agree. But maybe that's what got Kavanaugh.
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 01:46 PM
Jul 2020

If it had been a case brought by Republicans, the decision might have gone 5-4 the other way.

LeftInTX

(24,560 posts)
3. And I just got one on my mobile phone
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 01:40 PM
Jul 2020

JudyM

(29,122 posts)
5. Locking.
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 02:28 PM
Jul 2020

Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142530806
Please continue discussion that thread.

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