NEW: US Supreme Court declines to strike down federal law banning automated calls to the nation's cellphone users.
A group of fundraisers, political organizations, and pollsters filed a lawsuit, claiming that the revision made the law unconstitutional because it discriminated on the basis of the content of the call. A victory for them would have unleashed automated calls to cellphones just as the 2020 presidential election campaign heats up.
But the court said the provision applying to government debts could be stricken from the law, allowing the general ban on robocalls to stand.Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.
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