Fascinating recitation of facts I didn’t know, even if I don’t agree with this liberal publication’s interpretation of those facts.
https://newrepublic.com/article/153208/conservatives-coming-war-warren-court
Conservatives’ Coming War on the Warren Court
Led by Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court’s originalists are taking aim at the landmark precedents set by liberal justices decades ago.
By Matt Ford
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The Warren Court amounted to a third American revolution of sorts, after the original and the Reconstruction era. Its decisions on the allocation of power in American political life helped transform the United States into a liberal democracy.
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It was a halcyon era for American liberals, but not everyone was thrilled. The Warren Court’s landmark decisions spurred a backlash on the political right.
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McKee v. Cosby, a First Amendment case involving disgraced comedian Bill Cosby. Katherine McKee, who publicly accused Cosby of rape in 2014, sued him for defamation after he and his legal team allegedly leaked a letter that disparaged her truthfulness and character. The lower courts dismissed her case, ruling that her allegations against Cosby had made her a “limited-purpose public figure.”
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Thomas, writing only for himself, said the court had correctly declined to intervene in the case. He then went on to suggest that the landmark libel precedent should be overturned. “[Sullivan] and the Court’s decisions extending it were policy-driven decisions masquerading as constitutional law,” Thomas wrote, adding that the court should not continue to “reflexively apply” it going forward. “Instead, we should carefully examine the original meaning of the First and Fourteenth Amendments,” he continued. “If the Constitution does not require public figures to satisfy an actual-malice standard in state-law defamation suits, then neither should we.”
A world without Sullivan would be a daunting one for American journalists.
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Ha!
“A world without Sullivan would be a daunting one for American journalists.”
What they are really saying is that a world without Sullivan would mean that American journalists would be limited to reporting only the facts and not all the spin they gen up now.
Great and comforting article
7 Signs Trump Will Landslide 2020
Kevin McCullough
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The top 30 states where President Trump’s approval is the highest, mirror the 30 states he carried on election night. With the top 17 of those 30 sitting above 50%, exceeding 60% in more than one. Simply repeating wins in these 30 states insures victory.
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Surely Brad Parscale strategically understands that 7 additional states are within reach. He is likely already on the ground and on the web targeting those pro-jobs, pro-growth, pro-commonsense pockets and developing effective messaging to reach them.
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The President has outpaced all who have come before him in understanding how to actually make the media work for him. And in his term it has simply been to allow them to demonstrate their abject deranged bias, while he uses the power of rallies and Twitter to not just respond, but to direct and redirect the news cycle. They are in a sense his greatest ally—simply because their hatred and bias seem undeterred.
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President Trump is having the transformational impact that President Obama so desperately wished he could have. More people of every race, sex, and background are working better jobs, making better wages, and living better lives than we’ve ever measured in history. The President is also making good on delivering a more secure border and in the process increasing his approval ratings with voters who The Democrats have long taken for granted.
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The darker the hard blue states become, the easier it is for purple states to turn pink.
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Alito and Thomas...both terrific and Scalia-like