Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was a lonely voice when he urged re-assessment of the landmark free press and civil rights case New York Times v. Sullivan in 2019.
This month, Justice Neil Gorsuch joined Thomas in questioning Sullivan in their dissenting opinions in Berisha v. Guy Lawson et al. Together, their push raises the serious prospect that the Supreme Court’s new conservative majority will at some point consider overturning the famous 1964 case that rewrote libel law.
Justices Thomas and Gorsuch point out that media have changed dramatically since 1964 when a handful of television networks and print syndicates dominated delivery of information and news. Today, the internet and cell phones enable virtually anyone to be a publisher.
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