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READ: Justices Thomas and Gorsuch calls to revisit New York Times v. Sullivan

(CNN)The Supreme Court declined on Friday to take up a challenge to a landmark 1964 opinion that created a higher bar for public figures to claim libel, but Justice Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented and argued the court should revisit the breadth of the original opinion.

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