Kavanaugh’s Defenders Aren’t Helping
Prominent supporters of the embattled Supreme Court nominee, including the President, are doing him no favors.
Prominent supporters of the embattled Supreme Court nominee, including the President, are doing him no favors.
Alex Jones lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.
Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Federal law protects internet companies from liability for statements written by others.
Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.
Jarrod Ramos should have been in jail, let alone allowed to have any weapon more dangerous than a butter knife.
A man with a grudge against the Annapolis Capital Gazette killed five people in the newsroom.
Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.
Alex Jones is finally being called on to answer for his irresponsible lying about events like the Sandy Hook shooting.
Michael Cohen once threatened The Onion because it published a satirical article about Donald Trump.
Trump suffered another court loss yesterday that opens him up to some potentially embarrassing questions.
Rudy Giuliani threw a live grenade into the middle of the Stormy Daniels affair last night, and he’s made things much, much worse for his client.
Stormy Daniels is suing the President for defamation after he accused her of lying about a threat made to her seven years ago.
Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.
The parents of two of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing Alex Jones for falsely accusing them of lying about the deaths of their children.
Bill Cosby heads back to court for a retrial on the sexual assault allegations against him but it’s not going to be the same as the first.
A state trial court Judge in New York has ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed in Manhattan against President Trump can go forward.
A D.C. lawmaker latches on to an insane conspiracy theory.
Poland’s President has signed a controversial bill that purports to criminalize any effort to tie Poland to the Holocaust.
Former White House and Trump campaign adviser Steve Bannon has been subpoenaed in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Who needs a First Amendment when you have lawyers willing to write threatening letters?
The woman who says Ray Moore assaulted her when she was just 14 spoke out this morning at the same time that the White House effectively endorsed Moore’s candidacy.
No, we don’t have to presume that Roy Moore is “innocent until proven guilty.”
Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against The New York Times suffers a significant setback.
Sarah Palin has filed a defamation suit against The New York Times alleging defamation in an Editorial linking her to the January 2011 shooting of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. From the facts alleged, she appears to have a good case.
A Federal Jury orders Rolling Stone to pay up.
Journalistic malpractice has real consequences.
After nearly two years of decades old stories leaking out, entertainment legend Bill Cosby has been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2005.
Donald Trump’s speech yesterday at a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition was as bizarre as anything else we’ve seen from him.
A former staffer for the House Select Committee investigation the attack in Benghazi is suing the Committee for improper employment practices, and Chairman Trey Gowdy for defamation.
Rolling Stone faces yet another legal headache over last year’s story about a campus rape that never took place.
In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.
The first of what is likely to be many defamation suits related to Rolling Stone’s discredited campus rape story has been filed.
Some people in the media can’t seem to get it through their heads that speech they consider hateful is entitled to as much protection as speech that they support.
A hopeful First Amendment decision from the Supreme Court.
The so-called “right to be forgotten” created by Europe’s highest court is unworkable, and ultimately absurd.
Continuing the discussion from earlier this week on hate crimes.
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next week in an important First Amendment case.
Fifty years after the Stand in the Schoolhouse door, there’s another standoff with recalcitrant states on civil rights.
Set backs for Pennsylvania in its effort to reverse the NCAA sanctions against Penn State, and a new lawsuit from the Paterno family. The Sandusky story returns.