The ancient principle from English law that Donald Trump uses as a shield against defamation suits

By Eliza Bechtold, Programmes Manager and Research Fellow, the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

During the campaign for the midterm elections, we’ve heard some seriously incendiary rhetoric from Republican leaders, including Donald Trump, against the Democratic candidate for the senate seat of Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed.

The US president has called El-Sayed a “jihadist” and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a designated foreign terrorist…

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