Amy B. Ginensky Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer Article, 'Trump's Libel Law Threats Are Dead Wrong'
Amy B. Ginensky, of counsel in Pepper Hamilton and the chair of the firm's Media and Communications and First Amendment practices, was quoted in the September 13, 2018 Philadelphia Inquirer article, " Trump’s Libel Law Threats Are Dead Wrong."
Trump's assertions about First Amendment law, said attorney Amy B. Ginensky, who has defended The Inquirer and Daily News in libel cases, is "preposterous. The First Amendment comes first. Unless there's a constitutional amendment, he's not changing a thing."
Equally important, Ginensky observed, libel statutes are decided at the state level, where the scope of enacting change would be beyond the president's power.
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