Appeals Court Gives Minnesota Group Leeway to Discourage Voting by Nonincarcerated Felons

Right-wing group exempted from voting lie ban by court — and no one else

A federal appeals court has exempted the Minnesota Voters Alliance, a conservative election-integrity group, from Minnesota's election misinformation law ahead of the November midterms.The Eighth Circuit issued its ruling Thursday, reversing a lower court that had denied the group a preliminary inju...

Federal Appeals Court Blocks Minnesota Law Curbing Voting Eligibility Claims - Tampa Free Press

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Minnesota cannot criminalize statements made by an advocacy group regarding felon voting rules, determining that the state’s election disinformation law violates the First Amendment as applied to the group’s speech. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a […] Federal Appeals Court Blocks Minnesota Law Curbing Voting Eligibility Claims

Appeals Court gives Minnesota group leeway to discourage voting by nonincarcerated felons

An appeals court ruling says First Amendment protections trump Minnesota’s efforts to clamp down on election disinformation.