Letter of the Day (April 25): Truth and justices

Supreme Court wants truth for your body, but not for your mind.

April 24, 2014 at 11:52PM
From left, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Robert, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor applaud during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)
From left: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Robert, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor applauded during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The April 23 roundup of matters before the U.S. Supreme Court indicates an odd irony on the subject of lying. On the one hand, the court is described as "highly skeptical of laws that try to police false statements during political campaigns." On the other hand, "justices voiced deep skepticism Monday about Coca-Cola's Pomegranate Blueberry juice that is 99.4 percent apple and grape juice."

Couldn't we have the same standard of truth for political campaigns that we have for pomegranate juice?

John Sherman, Moorhead, Minn.
Chart compares the amount of pomegranate and blueberry juice in POM Wonderful Pomegranate Blueberry and Minute Maid Enhanced Pomegranate Blueberry drinks. Chicago Tribune 2014<p> With BC-SCOTUS-POMEGRANATE:TBW, Tribune Washington Bureau by David G. Savage ORG XMIT: 1152001
At issue in a recent court decision was a juice produced by Coca-Cola’s Minute Maid division. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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