Plus aren’t libel laws contested in state courts already?
This is Trump in his own words..
One of the things I’m going to do if I win... I’m going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money,” Trump said during a rally in Fort Worth, Texas.
“We’re going to open up those libel laws so when The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when the Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they’re totally protected,” he said. “We’re going to open up libel laws and we’re going to have people sue you like you’ve never got sued before.”
Sounds to me like he wants to federalize libel laws. Whose the “we” that’s gonna sue? Whose the people that are going to do the suing.
Folks, this guy’s a tyrant in waiting!!! His praise for Kim Jong Un, the Chinese government in Tienanmen(sp) Square, Putin, his over reaction to any criticism. He wants to grow the size of the Federal government and will go around the Constitution to achieve that goal.And many here will cheer it on. It’s clear by his statements and it’s too bad most can’t see past this supposed wall he’s going to build. Again, if his supporters were shown all his past and present positions and statements and didn’t know who said them or you told them Hillary made them, I guarantee they would oppose 90% of them. I pray that I’m wrong. But I fear I’m not.
And I blame the DNC, RNC, big business, the media for creating him.
The SCOTUS, in the Sullivan case, basically rewrote what “libel” means. Trump wishes to change it back to the original meaning it had when the Constitution & the 1st Amendment were ratified.