Trump looking into changing libel laws

PhantomWolf said:
"I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.”

It's as close to policy as we've been given.
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Hillary must be jumping with joy, and probably got the catalogues from "Super yachts for the super wealthy" open at the moment deciding whether she can make do with a mere 200ft yacht or go all out for the 500 footer.
 
BobTheCoward said:
Because my question doesn't take Trump seriously and isn't ultimately about Trump. I'm curious what is actually out there on politicians trying to change libel laws.

If this was the tax thread, and you pointed out scrapping the AMT was just garbage he said, I still might ask what other groups oppose the AMT.
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This is a thread about Trump's reforms. Perhaps start a new thread if you want to talk about other people's reforms?
 
On some corners of the internet I've seen it proposed that a central committee would establish "real facts" and newspapers would have to run every article by them so they could determine if their stories were "real" or "false" with failure to do this opening them up to civil suit.
 
alfaniner said:
Jesus Christ...

I feel like the country is the frog in the pot and the temperature is being increased ever so much every day. But I'm one of the few people that feels the heat.
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Yes, exactly. Support your local high school debate team. It's one of the few places where young teenagers learn to exercise their critical thinking skills.

The real-life, almost-instantaneous feedback from debate judges is great for teens.

Mostly, teenagers use their critical thinking skills to write papers, and they get those back days or weeks later.

You wouldn't train a puppy with feedback that happens days or weeks later, and I'm not sure the delay is that much more effective with human young.
 
WilliamSeger said:
What's disturbing is that he is telling his cult that it's fake news and they're believing it. This would be one of those times when it would be nice to know if he is actually delusional, but seriously: At what point does Presidential lying become a high crime or misdemeanor?
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You know...

Lying under oath is a crime, right? Why didn't they make it so that elected officials were always under oath when on the job?

NoahFence said:
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Exaggerated, but I laughed.

WilliamSeger said:
Could be it's just a Trump mind game, telling his cult that the press are their enemy and he's gonna go after them.

Or, he's mentally ill.

Hard to tell, ain't it.
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In both cases he's a threat to the first amendment, at least in principle, and that alone should be enough to get him FIRED!
 
Darat said:
Hillary must be jumping with joy, and probably got the catalogues from "Super yachts for the super wealthy" open at the moment deciding whether she can make do with a mere 200ft yacht or go all out for the 500 footer.
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Yeah if he DID manage to do it I'd hope this would come back to bit him in the ass.
 
Argumemnon said:
In both cases he's a threat to the first amendment, at least in principle, and that alone should be enough to get him FIRED!
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"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Should have known he was lying...
 
The what? ;)

I remember an episode of the Daily Show where Jon Stewart essentially showed right-wingers attacking every single amendment of the Constitution... except the second, of course.
 
PhantomWolf said:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Should have known he was lying...
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"...to the best of my ability..."
 
I no more want an amendment to expand libel laws than I want an amendment to allow government to stop corporations from publishing political statements about government.

Political discourse is the most highly protected of all speech, because it is speech by the people about their own government. The court has ruled that government cannot become the arbiter of what is true and what is false in political speech. This includes deliberate lies. Those in power cannot go after those who would speak about those in power.
 
Argumemnon said:
Lying under oath is a crime, right? Why didn't they make it so that elected officials were always under oath when on the job?
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Because sometimes a little .... umm, shall we say "obfuscation" is a valid negotiating tactic. But that leaves out Trump because he is incapable of a little white lie; no, he goes for only the bigly ones.
 
Travis said:
On some corners of the internet I've seen it proposed that a central committee would establish "real facts" and newspapers would have to run every article by them so they could determine if their stories were "real" or "false" with failure to do this opening them up to civil suit.
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Put it online and we could call it Priebus' Realtime Automatic Verification Database Application.
 
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