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Judge continues to block Florida from threatening TV stations over abortion ads

What the First Amendment does is leave matters like that to the public marketplace of ideas,” Stafford said, “not the whims of a government censor.”

The decision Walker handed down on Tuesday extends an Oct. 18 order barring state officials from “trampling” on the free speech rights of those they disagree with.

“The government cannot excuse its indirect censorship of political speech simply by declaring the disfavored speech is ‘false,'” the judge said in the previous order.

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