You know, simply put, there needs to be an adverse consequence for politicians who

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50. If teachers do that, they can be fired.

So, what's your point? Do you think there should be laws to criminalize lies? Which lies? White lies,like "Sure, I like your new haircut"?

In the case of a school, besides firing a teacher for teaching lies (which happened in my public school when I was in 4th grade), there are accreditation boards that will not give accreditation to substandard schools. And what about the Scopes trial in the 1920s in Tennessee, where a teacher was fired for teaching the "lie" about human evolution?

There already are numerous laws regarding honesty and lies. Truth in lending law requires lenders to disclose interest rates and fees on loans. Perjury is against the law. If somebody lies about being single and marries a woman (or man) when he/she already has a spouse, that's illegal. Slander and libel are illegal. It is illegal to lie or misrepresent yourself on tax forms. It is illegal to use false ID, claiming to be someone you aren't.

There are many more examples of laws against lying. That's what fraud laws are all about.

In the case of legislators lying about an election result in order to overturn an election, there are some laws that might address that. I am not a lawyer, let alone a constitutional lawyer, so I can't say how that would work. If laws are needed to specifically address that issue, one problem is that the laws are made by the legislators.