Justice Clarence Thomas urged otherwise.
, in which an evangelical Christian ministry accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of falsely designating it as an anti-LGBTQ hate group.
If it had overturned the ruling, the Supreme Court would have greatly increased the odds of public figures winning libel cases in the future. Instead, the decision delays a long-running push to expand the scope of defamation law.hinges on the “actual malice” standard — a protection that means public figures must show a false statement was made knowingly or with reckless disregard for its truth in order to win a defamation case.
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