Posted on 02/26/2016 12:41:29 PM PST by ConservativeTeen
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Friday vowed to "open up" libel laws in order to sue media outlets that write "purposely negative" and "horrible" articles about him.
"I’m gonna open up our libel laws, so when they write purposely negative and horrible, false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money," Trump said at a rally in Fort Worth, Texas.
"We’re going to open up those libels laws," he added. "So that 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."
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Aren’t the libel laws on the book now sufficient? What more is needed?
So now Cruz supporters are backing the MSM.
Free speech does not include lying.
Not controversial political speech, lies on a national level.
The legal recourse to people telling outright lies is to sue them. Why should the media be exempt?
Just watch, if libel laws are changed, liberals will go hard after Rush, Mark Levin, and all other conservative media outlets.
It’s saber rattling I figure
Libel is already agasint the law. Guess they did not that at Trump Univ.
But Negative statements are not only legal the are enshrined by the founding fathers. In the Deceleration of Independence
How many of these statements below would be “trumpian libel”
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
I’m not looking for an argument smokin’, but look what we have now. Do we have healthy descent? I don’t think so!
What we have now are communist activists (imo) who eagerly lie, cheat, and steal to get their way.
I don’t pretend to know how we rectify the situation. But the press as it is now is aiding and abetting the destruction of our culture the way I see it.
The danger here is that this power would be in the hands of a future Democratic president, or Democrat-controlled Congress. Do you want o give them the power to to more easily go after conservative media outlets? I don’t.
Why, did those people tell blatant lies?
Actually, in most cases, it does. SCOTUS has said so time & time again. The most recent time was striking down the Stolen Valor Act.
Just wait until this Jackasp oversees the DOJ and the IRS.
He’ll make Barky’s abuses look like child’s play.
Oh but he is gonna build a great wall. /s
Free Speech does not protect libel/slander.
Feel free to site any libel or slander that has been committed.
Of course calling some one a liar and then not being able to prove it .. is slander but I doubt the djt folks will think so.
Controversial yes, but deliberate lies, no. Once again, Trump challenges bullies—and how else do you describe major media outlets that are oblivious to the demands of ethical reporting?
You don't got it. Political speech and press freedom are protected in the Constitution. The fact that your man doesn't like them isn't material.
Did you notice how many people Il Donduche shook hands with.. ?
or that in a snit he refused to talk to Salem communications.
Doesn’t take much to get the cruzers’ panties in a bunch these days!!
My condolences on the defeat of your also-ran.
TRUMP 2016 Baby!!!
Do you realize libel laws apply to more than just the media?
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