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Board of ethics 'violating constitutional rights'

— Stephen Gelé, an attorney for Griffin & Bivalacqua, worries that the Louisiana Board of Ethics is violating the First Amendment by overregulating campaign finance.

“Where the First Amendment is implicated, the tie goes to the speaker, not the censor,” Gelé said at a hearing before the House and Governmental Affairs committee. “That is not how the ethics board has been operating.”

Gelé worries that…

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