GENERAL VERRILLI: “And I, what I think with respect to the government’s interest here and why there is">is a harm to that interest is">is that, the point of these medals is">is that it’s a big deal. You get one for doing something very important after a lot of scrutiny. And for the government to say is">this is">is a really big deal and then to stand idly by when one charlatan after another makes a false claim to have won the medal
does">does
debase the value of the medal in the eyes of the soldiers. It
does">does
do that. That
is
the government’s interest.”
Jonathan Libby is a deputy federal public defender. He represented Xavier Alvarez at the court hearing. Mister Libby admitted to the Court that the defendant is a liar. He was asked by Justice Samuel Alito if he believed the Constitution protects lies.
JUSTICE ALITO: “But you really think that there is - that the First Amendment - that there is First Amendment value in a bald-faced lie about a purely factual statement that a person makes about himself, because that person would like to create a particular persona? ‘Gee, I would, I won the Medal of Honor. I was a Rhodes scholar, I won the Nobel Prize.’ There’s a personal - the First Amendment protects that?”
MR. LIBBY: “Yes, Your Honor, so long as it does">doesn’t cause imminent harm to another person or imminent harm to a government function.”
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