The Covington Catholic Teen Lost His First Court Battle, But Will Probably Win His Next
29th July 2019
On Friday, a federal judge in Kentucky tossed Nicholas Sandmann’s defamation case against the Washington Post. Sandmann, the Covington Catholic student smeared by the Post and many other outlets earlier this year as a smirking, MAGA-hat-wearing racist who had blocked Native American elder Nathan Phillips’s path, promises an appeal.
On appeal, Sandmann is likely to win. I’ll lay out why, after a quick review of what happened.