Attorney General Ashley Moody defended the health department’s cease and desist letters threatening TV stations with criminal prosecution for playing pro-Amendment 4 advertisements and argued the state did not violate the campaign’s freedom of speech.

“The First Amendment does not give (Floridian Protecting Freedom) FPF the right to spread objectively false information about the availability of medical treatment when doing so causes legally cognizable harm. These principles transcend the politics of the moment,” Moody wrote Tuesday in a new court filing in response to FPF’s federal lawsuit.

Moody also said, “The Department’s actions were appropriately tailored to its substantial interest.”

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