[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Try the journalists on sedition and/or treason charges. Get everyone involved in the attempted overthrow of the government.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Try the journalists on sedition and/or treason charges. Get everyone involved in the attempted overthrow of the government.

contrary to popular opinion, slander and libel are illegal.

Journalists never libel “liberals,” so a ban on libel suits is a ban on Republican libel suits - and that is what the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision has brought about.

in Times v. Sullivan, Scalia said the Supreme Court, under Justice Earl Warren, “… simply decided, ‘Yes, it used to be that … George Washington could sue somebody that libeled him, but we don’t think that’s a good idea anymore.’”

JUSTICE SCALIA: THE 45 WORDS — AND ORIGINAL MEANING — OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT

The Sullivan decision is a fraud, and must be challenged now that SCOTUS has changed.