Covington Catholic High School Student’s Lawsuit Against The Washington Post Dismissed

A federal judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by Nicholas Sandmann against The Washington Post on Friday. A student at Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, Sandmann was captured in a viral video documenting a contentious encounter he had with a Native American activist in January. Sandmann’s $250-million lawsuit stated that the Post had “wrongfully targeted and bullied Nicholas because he was a white, Catholic student wearing a red ‘Make America Great Again’ souvenir cap” at his school’s field trip to a March For Life event in Washington, D.C. The suit said that the Post defamed Sandmann in its articles...