Freedom of the Press

newspaper. The Court said the right to publish all statements is protected under the First Amendment. The Court also said in order to prove libel, a public official must show that what was said against them was made with actual malice – “that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard for the truth.

“It’s hard to overstate the importance of the case and its effect on the law and on our politics. As the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, himself a critic of the case, said, Sullivan “altered the rules of the game of American politics, and speech, as a matter of fact, making American public officials more accountable, the American media more watchful, and the American people better informed.”

The Military Press has experienced attacks on the paper by the Biden Administration for our editorials favoring Trump’s policies while criticizing Biden’s inept policies on Afghanistan , Gas , Inflation , the Border Crises and our Weak Foreign policies .

Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin tasked with addressing “extremism” in the armed forces, would appear to have his own history of extremist views, as it emerges that he has claimed all Trump voters support racism and has called for curbing free speech online. In two series of tweets, both written in the summer of

2019, Garrison went after supporters and donors of the former commander-inchief, arguing that those who defended the 45th president were supporting “a racist” and his beliefs.” Funny … black