[conservatism_IS_compassion]

See post #7

. . . but again, “Wouldn’t stand up in court” is in the subjunctive mood. What we need to be able to say is that it “did not stand up in court” - meaning that

• it got to court, and that

• the plaintiff who sued for libel prevailed in court.

My #44 asserts that SCOTUS has a legitimate way of both accepting the case - in the teeth of the unanimous 1964 Warren Court claim in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan that 1A denigrated the right of officials to sue for libel - and finding for the plaintiff once there.

[william clark]

I withdraw the joke, Your Honor.