“All of those people are still liable for all the statements they make.”
Not under our present court system. It is who you are, not who you smear, that is the determining factor.
Nonsense. We’ve got plenty of corruption problems in the justice system, where a crooked prosecutor can choose to apply the laws unevenly. But in the civil courts, anyone can bring a lawsuit without asking permission from any district attorney. And plenty of people on the right have won judgements against people on the left.