Supreme Court to review Stolen Valor Act, which criminalizes lying about military honors

Xavier Alvarez is a liar and a scoundrel and also has been called an idiot, a jerk and cretinous. All of these descriptions come in the briefs supporting his cause before the Supreme Court.

Alvarez, once a member of a California water district board, earned such scorn by lying at a public meeting about being a war hero, specifically that he was awarded the Medal of Honor. But his lies did more than make him an outcast. They made him a criminal.

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