{"id":111215,"date":"2025-03-20T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/20\/supreme-court-limits-federal-prosecutions-over-misleading-but-true-statements\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:00:28","slug":"supreme-court-limits-federal-prosecutions-over-misleading-but-true-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/20\/supreme-court-limits-federal-prosecutions-over-misleading-but-true-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Limits Federal Prosecutions Over ‘Misleading but True’ Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"

“[A] statement that is misleading but true is by definition not a ‘false statement,'” Chief Justice Roberts Jr. wrote in a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

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“[A] statement that is misleading but true is by definition not a ‘false statement,'” Chief Justice Roberts Jr. wrote in a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

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“[A] statement that is misleading but true is by definition not a ‘false statement,’” Chief Justice Roberts Jr. wrote in a unanimous decision. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “[A] statement that is misleading but true is by definition not a ‘false statement,’” Chief Justice Roberts Jr. wrote in a unanimous decision. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/legal-news-8p6Vwt.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}