Court rules Hawaii’s attempt to censor satire violates 1st Amendment

A federal court in Hawaii has ruled that a state attempt to impose its political bias by censoring satire and parody it didn’t like violates the First Amendment and the law cannot ever be enforced.

The fight was brought by The Babylon Bee satire publication and others against the state’s law that banned the distribution of “materially deceptive media” that can portray politicians in ways that risk harming “the reputation or electoral prospects of a candidate.”

The court ruling said...