that's been the law of the land for, gosh, 50, 60 years. i can point you to a case in which i've applied it and i think it might give you what you're looking for, senator in terms of confirmation. >> but then this past july in dissenting in a case that the court declined to hear, gorsuch joined justice clarence thomas saying that the court should revisit the breadth of the sullivan ruling and complain how it applies to social media and technology companies. gorsuch wrote, quote, not only has the doctrine evolved into a subsidy for published falsehooded than could have predicted. clarence thomas wrote that the court's earlier pronouncements that the first amendment, quote, required public figures to establish actually malice bears no relationship to history or structure of the constitution. you know whose been advocating