Justice Thomas Wants to Make It Easier for People to Sue Media Outlets for Libel

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Justice Clarence Thomas wrote on Monday that he believes the Supreme Court should revisit a decades-old precedent on libel laws, signaling his willingness to overturn yet more landmark cases and potentially open up media outlets to attacks.

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear Coral Ridge Ministries Media v. Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in which the Christian advocacy group sued for defamation over its designation as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the SPLC. As a result, Coral Ridge was excluded from a donation program run by Amazon. The group first sued the SPLC in 2017 and the case has been dismissed by two lower courts.

The case challenged a precedent established in 1964 via The New York Times v. Sullivan, stating that a public figure must prove “actual malice” in libel charges they’re waging against another party. It protects a wide range of media outlets from lawsuits and is hailed by legal experts as vital to protecting free speech and freedom of the press.
https://truthout.org/articles/justice-t ... for-libel/

So he said in the dissenting argument, they aren't a hate group even though they ‘opposes homosexual conduct’ based on its religious beliefs. He should be careful what he wishes for. If that precedent is overturned it would really affect the rightwing media especially the likes of OAN, Faux News and the shock jocks like Alex Jones when they spew the lies about the liberals.
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