How can he say it isn't true? The bill provides for taxpayer funding of abortions. He voted for it. He supports taxpayer funded abortions. QED. If he wins this one it is truly an abrogation of the First Amendment.
Its an abrogation of the age of reason.
Nothing in the First Amendment says that political speach needs to be true.
All it says is exactly the opposite of what this Dem and Dem judge are trying to do - limit or punish political speach.