The 9th Circuit throws out the Stolen Valor Act as unconstitutional.

...and Blago is convicted for lying.  Bet he wishes he was in the 9th Circuit now.

Okay, leave aside the can of worms that is the Blagoevich case, and come back to Stolen Valor.

The 9th Circuit seems to have held that you can lie all you want about Medals, especially (that's my spin) if you're doing it for a political purpose. 

I've always been happier with the approach of go after the SV perps for fraud, but I can see a Federal prosecutor making a "bang for the buck" decision against going after the penny-ante stuff.  The ones that are just doing it because they're pathetic pale Walter Mittys, let them blink in the light of exposure and fade away to nothingness. 

But I'm a well known squish.

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