Sex & the Swastika

[rj]

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> Hard to conceive of any American writer having legal problems over
> anything he might say about a President.

I'd say the libel laws would apply, particularly in the civil courts.
They do here, anyway, as a recent case reported in the media
demonstrated. The biography of a former governor-general had to be
recalled, there was a huge settlement payout, the publisher was taken to
the cleaners (maybe I've got the chronology wrong, but something along
those lines). The reigning President's still a U.S. citizen, isn't he?
Same laws of the land apply (except when it comes to lying under oath I
suppose!)

Anyhow, this is a pretty trivial point in the context of the larger
discussion I think.

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