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They had not been invented in 1939. but that doesn't mean white house staff can appear in campaign commercials for the president's re-election and none ever have. and the white house counsel's office just made up the idea that senior white house officials are exempt from the hatch act. no one has ever believed that before. libel law by the way does not specifically mention social medial either but you can absolutely libel someone on twitter fright now and every lawyer in america and washington knows that the white house counsel wrote a legally empty defense of kellyanne conway today. the speci...

Emerging we were on the side of the free press. and now we have a president giving conditioning to dictators who are harassing the press and due trt in the philippines is an exam of someone who does that specifically citing fake news, enemy of the people. so the concern what trump does creates a kind of permissioning and climate where these violent attacks here are maybe not specifically atribtributable to trump. >> it happens during the civil rights movement where libel law is being specifically wielded. >> the lawsuit was against an advertisement. this was actually an advertisement by a grou...

Think made magical date. >> the president had threatened to increase the 10% tariff to 25% if a deal isn't reached by march 1. that march 1 deadline seems pretty steadfast. it could be pushed back if the two countries are appear to be making some progress. the u.s. is asking china to do a whole bunch of things. wants china to stop stealing u.s. technology, wants access to chinese markets, more are exports and structural changes in the system of forcing countries to hand over technology secrets. if talks go well, the tariffs might be lifted all together. justice clarence thomas pushing for th...

Veteran journalist in the philippines who was critical of the country's strong man due dar tay is fru on bail one day after being arrested on cyber libel charges. they say the charges stem from an article she wrote in 2012. the libel law which is controversial came into effect in september, 2012, four months after the article was published. president freedom advocates say the charges against him are an attempt by the philippine government silence journalists. long resigned yesterday. he's been under fire for using government resources and a inspector general report found he continued to use ...

Don't know why washington politicians don't change libel laws. >> let's have a first year law class. libel is a tort. libel is state law. there are 50 different libel laws and they're all very similar in the country but congress does not address libel law. that's not within congress' power. supreme court establishes a certain baseline about what the first amendment allows in libel cases. >> president obama was not born in the united states, would that be libel? >> very interesting question because it damages your reputation. now there is nothing damaging. lots of people are not born in the uni...