CINCINNATI — A federal judge Thursday struck down Ohio’s law barring people from knowingly or recklessly making false statements about candidates in a case that the U.S. Supreme Court said needed to be heard. U.S. District Judge Timothy Black ruled that Ohio’s law is unconstitutional and prohibited the Ohio Elections Commission and its members from enforcing it. The judge said in his ruling that the answer to false statements in politics is “not to force silence, but to encourage truthful …