Jerry LambeApr 8th, 2021, 2:01 pm
Sponsor of HB1219 Rep. Susan Lynn.
State lawmakers in Tennessee are moving forward with a bill aimed at “stopping the press from serving as a slander machine” by mandating that media outlets which publish reports on criminal charges or civil lawsuits filed against individuals or organizations also publish a follow up report on the outcome of those cases. Legal experts resoundingly derided the measure as “laughably unconstitutional.”
The HB1219, also known as the “Stop Guilt by Association Act,” was placed on the House Civil Justice subcommittee calendar Wednesday and scheduled for debate next week.
Under the measure, if a media outlet reported on the initial facts of a particular controversy, that outlet would also be required to provide comparably equal coverage in “time, place, magnitude, prominence, scale, and manner” regarding the ultimate conclusion of that controversy. It would also entitle people accused of criminal conduc
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Columbia Daily Tribune
Missouri attorneys and a legal scholar say the takeover of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters is the responsibility of the president and his allies in Congress, including U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley. It was a horrifying and shocking intrusion on the democratic process, plainly incited by the president of the United States, said Frank Bowman.
The MU law school s Student Bar Association has issued a statement calling for Hawley, a former professor there, to resign for his role in what it termed an attempted coup. In his relentless pursuit of power, Senator Hawley, a Yale-educated attorney, furthered President Trump s baseless election irregularity claims and committed sedition against the United States of America, the statement reads.