Advance Praise for A Right to Lie? “Catherine J. Ross, one of the country’s leading experts on freedom of speech, has written an elegant and provocative book on a topic of great importance: How should lies be treated under the First Amendment? As Ross shows, falsehoods can do enormous harm. But our constitutional jurisprudence has failed to provide a meaningful approach, especially when the lies come from a president or are viral over social media. In this clearly written, engaging book, Ross provides a pat
--Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
The cascade of Trump’s lies as president confronts us with a question vital to the future of American democracy: do presidents and others in public life have a right to lie? Specifically, does the First Amendment protect verifiable falsehoods?