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Baitball Blogger

(52,413 posts) Wed Feb 20, 2019, 01:49 PM Feb 2019

Anyone think it's a coincidence that Clarence Thomas wants to weaken the libel laws [View all]

for public figures, just weeks after his wife was known to be a visitor at Roger Stone's domicile the night before he was arrested?

Were they strategizing ways to silence the media, by giving Trump and others the power to SLAPP the media into silence?

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Anyone think it's a coincidence that Clarence Thomas wants to weaken the libel laws [View all] Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 OP

Thomas, Trump, and Boofer Brett want to be able to intimidate sexual assault/harassment accusers RockRaven Feb 2019 #1

Bingo! TheBlackAdder Feb 2019 #4

No coincidence. Not even a sliver of a chance it being a coincidence. nt GemDigger Feb 2019 #2

Agree with your supposition that it's part of an anti first amendment strategy. Claritie Pixie Feb 2019 #3

They are so accustom to riding over us when they want something for themselves Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #5

So the question is - how do we stop it from happening? Claritie Pixie Feb 2019 #7

We need better group of lawyers on the private level. Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #10

No chance peggysue2 Feb 2019 #6

The sad thing is that they are winning. Sure there is fight left but they are winning lancelyons Feb 2019 #8

Of course they're winning. They are better organized than we are. Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #11

Not necessarily better organized but willing to break the rules to make sure they get what they want lancelyons Feb 2019 #16

That too. Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #17

That's been Trump's wish since forever Cartoonist Feb 2019 #9

+1000 Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #12

It's not like Stone is into all that wife-swapping stuff (and all). CrossingTheRubicon Feb 2019 #13

I don't think Ginny is his type. Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #14

Not a coincidence PTWB Feb 2019 #15

trump has ruined coincidence for me. Paladin Feb 2019 #18

Ginny is the axis of evil between Thomas and all things that bend the law for the Right. Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #19