Although the type of censorship they seem to support is not the answer, reconsideration of the legal standard governing defamation, as Justice Clarence Thomas has urged, might be.

The Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in the case of Coral Ridge Ministries Media v. Southern Poverty Law Center. In his dissent from the high court's refusal to accept the appeal, Thomas once again urges fellow justices to reconsider the double standard for defamation that the court established in New York Times v. Sullivan in 1964. Thomas first did so in a longer dissent in 2021 in another case the court refused to hear, Berisha v. Lawson.

Coral Ridge Ministries, as Thomas explains, is a "Christian nonprofit dedicated to spreading the 'Gospel of Jesus Christ' and 'a biblically informed view of the world.'"  In 2017, Amazon told Coral Ridge Ministries that it was ineligible for Amazon's nonprofit donation program because it had been labeled as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center.