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By Nicole Lafond
April 5, 2019 12:07 pm
The Republican communications strategist who Rep. Devin Nunes is suing alongside Twitter, a cow and a mom parody account penned an op-ed in USA Today on Friday, suggesting that Nunes not only doesnt understand the Bill of Rights, but also his commitment to it as a literal lawmaker.
Its vitally important that the entire nation understands what this lawsuit is really about: A sitting member of the U.S. government, specifically, a congressman, is trying to stifle free speech mine, yours and every other Americans by using litigation as a cudgel to bully and intimidate, Liz Mair wrote, speaking out at length for the first time since Nunes filed the suit last month. She questioned whether Nunes actually defends the Constitution he swore to defend.
His action in filing this pleading draws into question not just his view of law applicable to this case, but also his belief in freedom of speech and his commitment and adherence to his own oath of office. Individually and collectively, all of these things should be extremely concerning to every American, no matter where they live, whom they vote for and where they fall on the philosophical spectrum, she continued. Rep. Nunes lawsuit also rightly generates skepticism that he truly understands the United States history of broadly and firmly protecting liberties, and the truth about why the Bill of Rights including the First Amendment was drawn up and remains the law of the land to this day.
Nunes filed his lawsuit against Mair, Twitter and the two troll accounts in mid-March, seeking $250 million in damages for defaming him online and, as he claims, planning an orchestrated attack against him. The defamatory tweets include memes of Nunes, President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in a human centipede style relationship, jokes about him growing up on a dairy farm and monikers like dirty Devin.
Read the full op-ed here.
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-strategist-sued-nunes-questions-whether-lawmaker-understands-constitution
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)She's a lot more intelligent (and funnier) than Trump, or most Republicans.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,131 posts)here) and others such as the ACLU don't sue him in return, for attempting to suppress their first amendment rights and get damages? Just a thought...I would even consider contributing to such a cause, for I do believe in our first amendment rights, and that a person of nunes standing (as a senator no less) should know this. Perhaps he needs to be taught a lesson and sued to within an inch of his political career?
MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)And a very bad one at that!
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)and then when Liz Mair and the others win, sue him for wrongful use of civil proceedings (if it were in CA).
struggle4progress
(118,291 posts)Liz Mair, Opinion contributor
Published 3:15 a.m. ET April 5, 2019 | Updated 8:49 a.m. ET April 5, 2019
... Nunes seems upset about my scrutiny, discussion and highlighting of publicly available information pertaining to him, and my criticism of his conduct, record and behavior as well as my generally not having acted like a Miss Congeniality award winner toward him. In other words, he is suing me for doing my job as a political communications strategist ...
James Madison, fourth president of the United States, father of the Constitution and co-author of the Federalist Papers, famously commented that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people. Nunes lawsuit flips that notion entirely on its head ...
... Americans should scrutinize our public officials political committee expenditures including those of leadership PACs voting records, public statements, financial interests, behavior and conduct. Its what the Framers wanted, it is what the First Amendment guarantees a right to do, and it is sound policy to boot. True freedom and good, constitutional government are impossible to maintain unless each of us is able to question, research and review what our public officials do, based on publicly available information and interactions with them and their staff, and then engage in unimpeded, public debate about what we find. They work for us, not the other way round ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/04/05/devin-nunes-suing-me-free-speech-twitter-liz-mair-column/3346525002/
Takket
(21,575 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)tRump can afford it, not sure numbnuts nunes can.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)for free speech, right now?
It's almost like their side is full of hypocritical lying nazis.