On Monday, the supreme court justice issued a worrying signal about his commitment to maintaining press freedoms
and its progeny have allowed media organizations and interest groups ‘to cast false aspersions on public figures with near impunity.’and its progeny have allowed media organizations and interest groups ‘to cast false aspersions on public figures with near impunity.’Last modified on Wed 29 Jun 2022 15.35 BSTn Monday, tucked away in a busy news cycle, was a quiet, subtle but no less terrifying judicial development.
L B Sullivan was a city police commissioner in Montgomery, Alabama, who sued the Times and 60 eminent Americans over a full-page 1960 ad they had placed to raise money for Martin Luther King Jr’s budding civil rights movement. The ad called police actions against nonviolent protestors in Montgomery “an unprecedented wave of terror”.
The court wrote of America’s “profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open”. Such debate, the court reasoned, requires “breathing room” for mistakes. Otherwise, the threat of defamation actions would chill robust public debate.
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