I have ranted about this several times before but since it has become obvious that most of you don’t remember anything I write for more than a few weeks I will refresh your recollection because it bears on the ABC and Stephanopoulos $16 million settlement for defamation of Trump.

The Sullivan case established the principle that the press cannot be held accountable for defamation unless you can prove that not only did they know or should have known that what you published was false but that they did it with malice intending to defame you.

I have ranted previously about the fact that when I was at Harvard, Sydney Pollock played his film, Absence of Malice, for us for our reaction before it was released. Btw it’s a great movie starring Paul Newman and Sally Fields and you should watch it if you can.

Now as I have ranted previously about the Nick Sandman and maybe other cases that the msm is scared to death that a case will make it to the Supreme Court that will give the court the chance to review the Sullivan decision because that decision is clearly contrary to the constitution.. Justice Thomas has been an outspoken critic of that decision for years and now Justice Gorsuch has joined the fight. There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution that says that the press is to be held to a different standard than everyone else on defamation, and the msm doing everything possible to keep the case from ever reaching the Supreme Court because it would destroy their privilege to defame public figures.

BTW I should have mentioned that the malice standard only applies to public figures. Private people can sue when false information is published without regard to malice.