Should Congress Pass a Law Reaffirming the 1st Amendment Freedom of Speech and the Press?

[Frodo]

https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1617183817004883968

[Antonio the Sixth]

I do think the actual malice standard is too restrictive, honestly, but getting rid of Sullivan completely would obviously be a disaster in this political climate.

[Frodo]

And to those conservatives here who are leaning towards voting 'no', consider the fact that any decision by the Federalist Society-dominated Supreme Court to either water down or outright overturn the New York Times vs. Sullivan decision will be to the detriment of the rightwing press as well.  What you have seen so far with Dominion and other voting machine companies suing Fox News and other conservative news media for defamation is nothing compared with what could be in the pipeline.  You will want to have that proposed bill passed into law with broad bipartisan majorities ASAP.  

[politicallefty]

No. The problem with NYT v. Sullivan is that the Court didn't go far enough in protecting speech. Justice Black's concurrence should be the law of the land.