Justices Could Disconnect Robocalls Over Debt Collection (1)

An exception to the ban on robocalls that allows collection of government debt seemed likely to fall after U.S. Supreme Court arguments on Wednesday.

The political groups challenging the law say an exemption for government debt is a “content-based” restriction on speech. In 2015, the court said such restrictions were “presumptively unconstitutional.”

“I don’t see how you can escape a content-based distinction,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said from Johns Hopkins hospital where she’s being treated for a gallbladder condition. She echoed Chief Justice John Roberts who said he couldn’t see how the government could get “out of the content category.” ...