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'Huge Win': Judge Does a Turnaround, Allows Nick Sandmann to Sue the Washington Post for Defamation

Calvin Freiburger : Oct 29, 2019  LifeSiteNews.com

"Now #NickSandmann will be able to start discovery and find out exactly what the reporters were thinking when they attacked Nicholas and the #CovingtonCatholic kids." -Todd V. McMurtry, via Twitter

[LifeSiteNews.com] Pro-life teen Nick Sandmann's defamation suit against the Washington Post got a new lease on life Monday thanks to US District Judge William Bertelsman partially reversing his prior ruling, which will allow the suit to move forward. (Image: via LifeSiteNews)

Immediately following the January March for Life in Washington, DC, the press erupted with claims that a video showed boys from the Kentucky religious school harassing Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, outside the Lincoln Memorial. But additional extended video and firsthand accounts soon revealed that Phillips was the one who waded into the group waiting for its bus and decided to beat a drum inches from Sandmann's face, while the boys had merely performed school cheers in hopes of drowning out racist taunts from members of the Black Hebrew Israelites fringe group.

The Washington Post issued an editor's note in March admitting that "subsequent reporting, a student's statement and additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred, either contradicting or failing to confirm accounts provided in that [January 18] story," but neither retracting nor apologizing for its initial piece. Sandmann's attorneys rejected it, and launched a $250 million defamation suit against the paper... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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