>How should defamation be handled? With a strong federal anti-SLAPP statute. We have the legal tools for this already, the problem is simply that they've been

>How should defamation be handled? With a strong federal anti-SLAPP statute. We have the legal tools for this already, the problem is simply that they've been haphazardly adopted. Anti-SLAPP is a straight forward decent measure that doesn't stop valid defamation lawsuits, but merely makes sure the lawsuit has legs before it gets into the expensive (discovery) part, and has provisions to recover attorney fees. Former prosecutor, now defense lawyer Ken White did an excellent, fairly exhaustive 3 part series on Anti-SLAPP laws covering their rational, how they work, and what makes good or bad statutory implementations in "What Is An Anti-SLAPP, Anyway? A Lawsplainer Series" [0, 1, 2]. Well worth a read as it's a reasonably important issue and also something that doesn't fall along traditional politicization lines and can be quite doable for citizens to push their reps on. ---- 0: https://popehat.substack.com/p/what-is-an-anti-slapp-anyway-a-lawsplainer https://popehat.substack.com/p/what-is-an-anti-slapp-anyway-... 1: https://popehat.substack.com/p/what-is-an-anti-slapp-anyway-a-lawsplainer-44b https://popehat.substack.com/p/what-is-an-anti-slapp-anyway-... 2: https://popehat.substack.com/p/what-is-an-anti-slapp-anyway-a-lawsplainer-46c https://popehat.substack.com/p/what-is-an-anti-slapp-anyway-...