<p>As The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/29/one-america-maddow-daily-beast/">reports</a> and as independently verified by documents obtained by The Daily Wire, conservative television network One America News Network (OANN) has issued cease-and-desist retraction letters to both The Daily Beast and MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow. The letters, which were sent last Thursday, allege that Maddow and The Daily Beast&#8217;s Kevin Poulson alike <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-trumps-new-favorite-channel-employs-kremlin-paid-journalist">defamed</a> OANN by linking the network to the Russian government and, in the case of Maddow, decrying the network as &#8220;literally &#8230; Russian propaganda.&#8221; The cease-and-desist letters give the recipients a deadline of August 15 to issue public retractions.</p>
<p>The involvement of a prominent conservative media outlet in a defamation dispute against other media personalities provides a good opportunity to delve into the state of defamation law in the United States. Specifically, it is important to understand why a hypothetical defamation lawsuit filed by OANN would face an uphill battle under existing U.S. Supreme Court precedent — but why that might not be the case (perhaps especially as applied to Maddow) under an originalist understanding of the First Amendment.</p>

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