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Federal judge pens dissent slamming
decades-old press protections

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Posted By: OhioNick, 3/19/2021 4:43:41 PM

A federal appeals court judge issued an extraordinary opinion Friday attacking partisan bias in the news media, lamenting the treatment of conservatives in American society and calling for the Supreme Court to overturn a landmark legal precedent that protects news outlets from lawsuits over reports about public figures. D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence Silberman’s diatribe, contained in his dissent in a libel case, amounted to a withering, frontal assault on the 1964 Supreme Court decision that set the framework for modern defamation law — New York Times v. Sullivan.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Avikingman 3/19/2021 4:51:58 PM (No. 728950)
The Supine Court will demur.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: seamusm 3/19/2021 4:56:22 PM (No. 728955)
Guess they're not ALL fools. But more to the point - this was an opinion published as part of a dissent. Meaning - he was in the minority.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: usmc0302 3/19/2021 4:59:17 PM (No. 728956)
Unless it is a majority opinion, it is meaningless.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 3/19/2021 5:23:55 PM (No. 728973)
Wow! Silberman is a lifelong leftie - - often mentioned as a possible Supreme pick by a leftie president. I'm almost ready to believe that he's been enlightened - - but - - leftists almost never change their secular religion.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bighambone 3/19/2021 5:38:26 PM (No. 728991)
If the Supreme Court got off their butts and went along with this not “woke” but “awake” Judge who sees clearly what has really been going on with the fake media, Trump would be in line to make billions of dollars as the result of civil cases against the deceitful media.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: spacer 3/19/2021 5:40:42 PM (No. 728995)
#4...Silberman was appointed by Ronald Reagan and is considered a originalist constitutionalist by constitutionalist.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: RedWhite&Blue2 3/19/2021 5:49:04 PM (No. 729006)
What truth!!!!! If only this was taught to every student in every school in America .. We need three networks like they have.. We need many newspapers like they have.. We have to counter their devil influence! Fight back patriots!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: SkeezerMcGee 3/19/2021 6:40:35 PM (No. 729056)
Dissenting opinions are far from always being meaningless. Sometimes a minority opinion later becomes a majority opinion. At least once an obscure footnote in a minority opinion later became a majority opinion; regarding the 14th Amendment it is the footnote that grew from an acorn into an oak. The Supreme Court needs to revisit New York Tines v. Sullivan regarding the public figure criteria.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: anniebc 3/19/2021 7:02:49 PM (No. 729077)
The media's bent on killing our rights and the Constitution; they should be deprived of theirs.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 3/19/2021 11:54:22 PM (No. 729317)
The Enemedia deserve a LOT of bad things.
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