Foreign Policy: U.S. Conservatives Are Threatening Global Free Speech
…an, who is expected by many to announce his candidacy for president in the coming weeks or months. DeSantis’s call to make it easier to sue the media for `false information’” is part of a larger Republican revolt against the 1964 Supreme Court New York Times v. Sullivan decision, which sets a very high bar for when public figures and officials can successfully sue for defamation. “But there is every reason to think that overturning Sullivan would…