Two Supreme Court justices want to revisit a landmark free-press ruling
Does the Sullivan precedent make it too easy to publish lies?
IT HAS BEEN five years since then-candidate Donald Trump called for America’s libel laws to be “open[ed] up” to make it easier for public figures to sue press outlets and win “lots of money”. No such loosening has transpired. But some judges and scholars are raising doubts about the nearly 60-year-old precedent that sets a high bar for successful libel suits.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Malice afterthought”
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