Federal judge slams landmark First Amendment ruling, accuses mainstream media of liberal bias
(Worthy News) – A federal judge this week slammed a decades-old First Amendment ruling regarding libel law, claiming that ruling was invented by the Supreme Court at the time as a “policy-driven decision masquerading as constitutional law.”
D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence Silberman wrote the dissenting opinion in a case addressing a libel dispute between two Liberian government officials and the nonprofit human rights group Global Witness. The Liberian officials had argued that a report written by Global Witness implicating them in a bribery scheme should be treated as libel.
Calling the country’s two most prominent papers—the New York Times and the Washington Post—”virtually Democratic Party broadsheets,” Silberman argued that the Sullivan case “allows the press to cast false aspersions on public figures with near impunity. It would be one thing if this were a two-sided phenomenon.” [ Source: Just the News (Read More…) ]
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