Trump’s attacks on the press were bad. What this federal judge did was worse.

3/21/21
 
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from The Washington Post,
3/21/21:

It’s alarming enough when a president calls reporters the “enemy of the people.” It’s even more alarming when words to that effect come from one of the nation’s most prominent federal appeals court judges — and when he goes even further, calling New York Times v. Sullivan, the foundational ruling protecting press freedom, “a threat to American Democracy.”

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