judge tosses trump's suit against NYT. judge says it's a “fail as a matter of constitutional law,”

[butters]

tee hee

A New York judge has tossed out Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times, and ordered the former president to pay all attorneys fees, legal expenses, and associated costs.
Trump filed the lawsuit in 2021, alleging that the newspaper, three of its reporters and his niece engaged in an “insidious plot” to obtain his private records for a Pulitzer-winning story about his tax issues.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...31&cvid=174d00b7c32a4f75bf49536ec277d8b1&ei=8

 

[RobDownSouth]

His entire lawsuit was designed to get the landmark Sullivan v. NY Times ruling back in front of the Extreme Court, and make criticism of elected officials a punishable offense again.

 

[butters]

His entire lawsuit was designed to get the landmark Sullivan v. NY Times ruling back in front of the Extreme Court, and make criticism of elected officials a punishable offense again.

so this will head there? i have to wonder, with all the recent criticism (and closing ranks) of the 9 if they'd accept this case. yeah yeah, nothing should still surprise me

 

[butters]

and now a trump-appointed judge has tossed trump's defamation claim (to the tune of $475m) against CNN

District Judge Raag Singhai—who announced his decision Saturday—dismissed a claim by Trump that CNN used the phrase “the Big Lie” in connection with Trump’s false claims about voter fraud while allegedly likening him to Adolf Hitler.

The network’s use of the phrase “does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” Singhai wrote, noting “no reasonable viewer could (or should) plausibly make that reference.”
Singhai—a Trump appointee who serves in the Southern District of Florida—also added that being “Hitler-like” was not “a verifiable statement of fact that would support a defamation claim.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=02cdb971148445a4949f4b92430a39eb&ei=94