Thomas, Gorsuch say Supreme Court should revisit landmark libel ruling

Justice Clarence Thomas renewed his calls for the Supreme Court to revisit its 1964 landmark decision that makes it difficult to bring defamation suits against public figures. 

The conservative justice’s urging came as his colleagues declined to take up an appeal from longtime Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on Monday. 

Dershowitz petitioned the Supreme Court to revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN, which concerned the network’s coverage of President Trump’s first impeachment trial, hoping it would prompt a watershed moment on libel law. 

The justices declined to take it up, leaving in place lower rulings tossing his lawsuit. 

Thomas, joined by fellow conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, publicly dissented. They would’ve heard the case to consider making it easier to sue public figures for defamation.  

“Instead, the founding generation believed that, if anything, public figures had stronger claims for damages when they were........

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