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US Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman warns the current state of media is 'a threat to a viable democracy'

In incredible dissent, federal judge launches broadside attack on SCOTUS precedent protecting left-wing press


By The Blaze ——--March 20, 2021

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A federal judge called for a landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press and libel laws to be overturned in a fiery dissent decrying "bias against the Republican Party," blasting the near "one-party control" of legacy news media, slamming Silicon Valley's censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and warning that the current state of American media is "a threat to a viable democracy." U.S. Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman, a Reagan appointee, launched a broad attack on the Supreme Court's unwillingness to revisit precedent and the news media in a dissent in Tah v. Global Witness — a defamation case. After arguing against the court majority's ruling on the merits of the case, Silberman was "prompted to urge the overruling of New York Times v. Sullivan" — a landmark ruling that established what a plaintiff must show to prove a claim of defamation or libel made against a publisher.-- More...

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