Mr. Sandmann, bring us a dream ! ;-D
Go Nick go!
Hope he takes every one of them down....
Twitter is an editor. They remove things they say are incorrect. Therefore, everything the allow and refuse to shut down are just as though Twitter is a newspaper and published slander.
The one thing the liberal media does not understand is that this was a 16 year old man that went to a pro Life rally in Washington DC. That shows he is counter culture to today’s secular values plus he has a certain amount of moral strength. Then they went and attached him with falsehoods. Now this kid is pissed.
I hope the Wall of Doctors follow the same lawsuit!
NICK SHOWS A LOT OF CLASS...........
thanks for posting. Good analysis.
I’ve got to imagine that there is one defendant that Wood plans on taking to trial. Precedent needs to be set. I wonder who the lucky defendant will be.
GREAT. - Personally, I hope that the courts make the LIARS in the press pay & pay & pay the young man until it HURTS them severely or even closes their “news” outlet forever.
Yours, TMN78247
I suspect the news organizations are caving to prevent access to their emails from the DNC.
The Sullivan decision justified itself with the assertion that". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment”We all love us some First Amendment - but in reality that claim is poppycock. In fact, prior to 1964 no court had ever asserted that the First Amendment had any effect at all on libel law.That is true for the same reason that 1A has no effect on pornography restrictions. Namely, the fact that the objective of the Bill of Rights was to guarantee, and reassure the public, that the Constitution did not change the rights of the people in any non-explicit way.
There was no bill of rights in the unamended Constitution for the simple reason that the Federalists assumed, and wanted the public to assume, just that - that the Constitution didn’t change anyone’s common law rights. When forced to insert a bill of rights into the Constitution by amendment, the Federalists did two things:
Thus, the fact that the Constitution - First Amendment and all - is silent about pornography law and libel law means that common law principles prior to the Constitution apply to them. Nobody thought that laws against pornography or libel were exceptionable in 1788, and to have assayed to weaken those laws by constitutional amendment in that era would have been to invite a firestorm of controversy.
- In the first eight amendments they “enumerated” - did not claim to create but merely to articulate - rights, and only those rights, which had historically been denied by tyrants.
- In the ninth and tenth amendments, they asserted the principle that if the Constitution is silent about a right, the Constitution does not change that right.
Libel and slander are violations of the Ninth Commandment, "
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour and the weakening of legal strictures against libel or slander would have been opposed from every pulpit in the land. No such furor erupted, because the First Amendment was understood to preserve “the” freedom of the press - freedom as it already existed, and was limited, by libel and pornography restrictions.
Antonin Scalia understood and articulated that argument, and Clarence Thomas does so now.
The New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision was unanimous, but that was a ruling by the notorious Warren Court. Absent the investiture of Antonin Scalia in the year before the decision, Morrison v. Olson could have been unanimous too - but nobody now would venture to cite it as precedent for anything other than the fact that eight SCOTUS justices can be wrong at the same time. Well, the Sullivan decision proves that nine Warren Court justices could be egregiously wrong simultaneously.
I understand the family wanting to settle and move on with life. But Wash comPost was the most vicious to the CovCath kids.
I was hoping the family would force a trial, get the guilty verdict and compensation.
The every other CovCath student at that rally would line up in court with their guilty verdict resulting in forcing Bezo to bankrupt the comPost.
But again, I understand.
Goliath is getting his @$$ kicked.
Gives us hope.