In a sharply worded ruling, U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker issued a temporary restraining order calling threats by the Florida Department of Health…
In a sharply worded ruling, U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker issued a temporary restraining order calling threats by the Florida Department of Health"unconstitutional coercion."administration to stop threatening to prosecute local TV stations for airing a political ad promoting an abortion-right referendum that will be on November's ballot., U.S. District Judge Mark E.
Earlier this month, the health department sent cease-and-desist letters to dozens of local TV stations that aired the ad, including NBC Miami, saying it could invoke a “sanitary nuisance” law and initiate criminal proceedings against them. At least one station stopped airing the ad, the judge noted in his ruling, writing that it served as"further evidence of its coercive nature.
It's called "The Amendment to Limit Government Interference in Abortion." Amendment 4 is up for a vote in less than three weeks but now a new lawsuit calls into question whether it would take effect, even if 60 percent of voters approve. "While Defendant Ladapo refuses to even agree with this simple fact, Plaintiff’s political advertisement is political speech — speech at the core of the First Amendment," Walker said."The government cannot excuse its indirect censorship of political speech simply by declaring the disfavored speech is 'false.'"
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