Sullivan Revisited

Is New York Times v. Sullivan, the case in which the Supreme Court sharply limited libel suits by public officials—a group later expanded to “public figures”—now on shaky ground?

Not long ago that would have been unthinkable. But nowadays, particularly in the wake of a stiff and scholarly Clarence Thomas dissent in McKee v. Cosby, it’s become so thinkable that people are thinking it, and writing about it, and even publishing books about it.