Alito Dissents In Cert Denial Of Climate Change Blog Posts 1st Amendment Row

Mealey's (November 26, 2019, 4:46 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A petition for certiorari brought by National Review Inc. and other parties in a defamation lawsuit over blog postings critical of a climate change professor presented “questions that go to the very heart of the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and freedom of the press,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said in a Nov. 25 dissent to his U.S. Supreme Court colleagues’ denial of the petition (National Review Inc., et al. v. Michael E. Mann, No. 18-1451 and 18-1477, U.S. Sup., 2019 U.S. LEXIS 7193)....