They may be overrun by partisan hacks but at least the Supreme Court got it right with regard to telemarketers:
The Supreme Court let stand a lower-court ruling that telemarketers' rights to free speech are not violated by the government's nationwide do-not-call list.Without comment, the justices rejected an appeal by commercial telemarketers against the lower-court ruling, which upheld as constitutional the popular program in which consumers can put their names on a list if they do not want to be called by telemarketers.
"We hold that the do-not-call registry is a valid commercial speech regulation because it directly advances the government's important interests in safeguarding personal privacy and reducing the danger of telemarketing abuse without burdening an excessive amount of speech," the appeals court said.
Actually, reading further into the article, maybe I should take back the 'partisan hack' comment. The Justices also:
- let stand a ruling that a Catholic charity in California must include prescription contraceptives in its employee health insurance plan
- rejected an appeal from ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who lost his job after defying a federal order to dismantle a Ten Commandments monument.
