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A constitutional right to lie

Lost in the hoopla over the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act is a fascinating and important free-speech decision that is one of the oddest in the already strange history of the First Amendment. The case, Alvarez v. United States, was all about lies.

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  • Headline: A constitutional right to lie
  • Publication: Perspective, Pages 76 on 07/01/2012
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