{"id":108109,"date":"2025-02-10T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T01:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/10\/the-billionaire-who-wants-the-supreme-court-to-overturn-emnew-york-times-v-sullivan-em\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T01:02:50","slug":"the-billionaire-who-wants-the-supreme-court-to-overturn-emnew-york-times-v-sullivan-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/10\/the-billionaire-who-wants-the-supreme-court-to-overturn-emnew-york-times-v-sullivan-em\/","title":{"rendered":"The Billionaire Who Wants The Supreme Court To Overturn &lt;em&gt;New York Times v. Sullivan&lt;\/em&gt;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"editor-post-featured-image__preview-image alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1257698689-620x414.jpg?resize=424%2C283&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"283\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which billionaire and former finance chair of the RNC is asking the Supreme Court to reconsider its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2023\/04\/fox-news-defamation-cbc-actual-malice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">actual malice<\/a>\u201d standard, in an attempt to revive his defamation lawsuit against the Associated Press and one of its journalists over a 2018 article?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Two justices, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, have already signaled <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2023\/10\/clarence-thomas-really-wants-to-re-write-first-amendment-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they\u2019re very much open<\/a> to undoing this pillar of the First Amendment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/the-billionaire-who-wants-the-supreme-court-to-overturn-new-york-times-v-sullivan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Billionaire Who Wants The Supreme Court To Overturn &lt;em&gt;New York Times v. Sullivan&lt;\/em&gt;<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"editor-post-featured-image__preview-image alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1257698689-620x414.jpg?resize=424%2C283&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"283\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which billionaire and former finance chair of the RNC is asking the Supreme Court to reconsider its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2023\/04\/fox-news-defamation-cbc-actual-malice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">actual malice<\/a>\u201d standard, in an attempt to revive his defamation lawsuit against the Associated Press and one of its journalists over a 2018 article?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Two justices, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, have already signaled <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2023\/10\/clarence-thomas-really-wants-to-re-write-first-amendment-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they\u2019re very much open<\/a> to undoing this pillar of the First Amendment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/the-billionaire-who-wants-the-supreme-court-to-overturn-new-york-times-v-sullivan\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/the-billionaire-who-wants-the-supreme-court-to-overturn-new-york-times-v-sullivan\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which billionaire and former finance chair of the RNC is asking the Supreme Court to reconsider its \u201cactual malice\u201d standard, in an attempt to revive his defamation lawsuit against the Associated Press and one of its journalists over a 2018 article? Hint: Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-1257698689-620x414-4kGe3U.jpeg?fit=620%2C414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}