CNN Legal Analyst: ‘You Don’t Have A First Amendment Right To Lie’.

 

That was wrong – obviously people can lie. I meant to say Trump has no 1st Am right to call for a crime to be committed (or to call for something dangerous). Sorry for the misstatement.

— Jennifer Rodgers (@JenGRodgers) February 2, 2021

Rodger’s claim that the First Amendment does not protect the right to lie runs contrary to multiple Supreme Court decisions that have upheld the right to use false statements, with the exception of defamation. Roger’s later corrected her misstatement.