Who Gets To Decide What Is ‘Misinformation’?
9th August 2024
A chilling letter this week from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is a reminder that Americans cannot forget about the importance of the judiciary in upholding free speech and our other constitutional freedoms.
On Tuesday – ironically, the day Michiganders went to the primary polls to participate in our constitutional right to vote – Nessel issued a “cease-and-desist letter” against a citizen whom the letter claimed was violating a state law against “misleading or false information” about “polling locations.” The recipient of the letter, Kerry Lynn Elieff, was threatened with “criminal prosecutions” if she did not follow the order.
What raises the biggest red flags is that Nessel’s letter doesn’t ever state what information was false or misleading. Elieff told me after the cease-and-desist letter became public that all she was trying to do was verify that due process was followed in changing polling locations. She actually took down her public posts out of fear of prosecution – and who can blame her? She wasn’t sure what to do after being under surprise threat by a state official.