State-owned public television networks are not required to invite minor party candidates with few supporters to major party debates because the networks are not public forums.
Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes, 523 U.S. 666 (1998), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that state-owned public television networks are not required to invite minor-party candidates with few supporters to major-party debates because the networks are not public forums.[1][2]
References
^Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes, 523U.S.666 (1998).
^Lieberman, Jethro K. (1999). "Public Forum". A Practical Companion to the Constitution. p. 564.
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