Comedy with a warning label: New Mexico wants the Babylon Bee to spoil its own jokes
I’ve spent 30 years drafting disclosure language for private placement memoranda. A disclosure has one job: warn the reader before he relies on something that might mislead him. New Mexico just tried to point that same tool at a joke.The Babylon Bee, the Christian satire site known for headlines no one mistakes for news, sued New Mexico officials this week over House Bill 182.
- ▪I’ve spent 30 years drafting disclosure language for private placement memoranda.
- ▪A disclosure has one job: warn the reader before he relies on something that might mislead him.
- ▪New Mexico just tried to point that same tool at a joke.The Babylon Bee, the Christian satire site known for headlines no one mistakes for news, sued New Mexico officials this week over House Bill 182.
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| Original publisher | Washington Examiner |
| Canonical URL | https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4687409/babylon-bee-new-mexico-satire-lawsuit-first-amendment/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 |
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I’ve spent 30 years drafting disclosure language for private placement memoranda. A disclosure has one job: warn the reader before he relies on something that might mislead him. New Mexico just tried to point that same tool at a joke.The Babylon Bee, the Christian satire site known for headlines no one mistakes for news, sued New Mexico officials this week over House Bill 182. The lawsuit, filed by Alliance Defending Freedom in federal court, argues the state is forcing the Babylon Bee to slap a government-scripted warning label on its own political comedy, and that doing so violates the First Amendment. Recommended Stories Forget ‘justice’: The cold math of how the Ukraine war actually ends Hakeem Jeffries wants to pack the court. Donald Trump wants to own it.
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