Justice Thomas Sounds the Alarm on the "Actual Malice" Rule in Defamation Cases
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In the exuberant happiness, relief, and pure joy of what one observer has called “one of the greatest weeks in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court”, one very short dissent by the Justice who is now recognized as “the undisputed intellectual leader of the Court” has been largely overlooked. However, its importance cannot be overemphasized as a potential “harbinger of something important still to come.” That lone dissent, as so many of his dissents have been over the years, was written by Justice Clarence Thomas who, if my admittedly somewhat blinded judgment in view of our admiration for the man may be pardoned, should clearly be
Justice Thomas Sounds the Alarm on the "Actual Malice" Rule in Defamation Cases
Justice Thomas Sounds the Alarm on the…
Justice Thomas Sounds the Alarm on the "Actual Malice" Rule in Defamation Cases
In the exuberant happiness, relief, and pure joy of what one observer has called “one of the greatest weeks in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court”, one very short dissent by the Justice who is now recognized as “the undisputed intellectual leader of the Court” has been largely overlooked. However, its importance cannot be overemphasized as a potential “harbinger of something important still to come.” That lone dissent, as so many of his dissents have been over the years, was written by Justice Clarence Thomas who, if my admittedly somewhat blinded judgment in view of our admiration for the man may be pardoned, should clearly be