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Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 1:20 pm … leaving all those poor cows without representation. Not to mention his constituents.

See ya, Devin Nunes. We deserve a representative who will actually meet with citizens

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Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 11:26 am For some nutty reason, I checked out trump coin last night. It was down to, I believe, 23 cents. Rising tides...or should I say low tide?

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(and, yes, I know the market is way down, but wasn't trump coin supposed to be the bedrock of the new right-wing economy?)

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 1:00 pm

Devin Nunes left Congress in December, but judges continue to dismiss his stream of defamation suits.
Appeals court judges have upheld a lower court in dismissing one of Nunes' lawsuits against the Washington Post.

More Nunes court troubles: The wave of libel suits former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) brought against news organizations and social media companies over the past few years continues to fizzle out in court.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling Friday upholding a lower judge’s decision to toss out a $250 million suit Nunes filed over a February 2020 Washington Post article. The story discussed a controversy over a briefing an intelligence official gave Congress, stating that Russian officials wanted to see President Donald Trump reelected.

Nunes' accusations: Nunes said the story defamed him by suggesting he lied to Trump about the circumstances of the briefing, leading the former president to believe that the intelligence official shared the information only with House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) Nunes also said the article made it appear he’d influenced Trump to unfairly scuttle the promotion of Joseph Maguire, the then-acting director of National Intelligence, to be the permanent head of intelligence.

What the court said: The appeals court noted that Nunes never pointed to any false statements in the article. The judges also said the implications Nunes contended were in the story simply were not there. “Nothing in the article suggests an intent on the part of the Post to imply that Nunes lied to President Trump or that his communications were responsible for Maguire’s loss of the top intelligence position,” the D.C. Circuit said in a five-page decision.

All three judges on the appeal — Judith Rogers, Patricia Millett and Cornelia Pillard — are Democratic appointees.

The judges noted that Nunes sought to use the suit against the Post to overturn the actual malice standard from the landmark New York Times v. Sullivan Supreme Court case, but they concluded that effort was moot because the congressman did not have a case under any standard. The actual malice standard states that public figures claiming they were defamed have to prove that the contested information was published either with reckless disregard for the truth or knowledge that it was false.

Note: Nunes resigned from Congress in December to become CEO of the Trump Media & Technology Group.

Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes says when Republicans retake power, they will investigate Benghazi, the ‘Russia hoax,’ and the ‘Ukraine impeachment hoax.’

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:43 am They have no future so they must investigate the past.

tek wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 6:52 am TBH, investigating the future is difficult for most sane people.

Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 7:56 am Benghazi, again. Really?

Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:28 pm You know, after all those prior investigations (I think there were 9), they're probably getting pretty good at investigating Benghazi. They've had a lot of practice, and a good deal of experience. They are probably ready to investigate the hell out of Benghazi, BUT ...

They got some 'splainin' to do about what went wrong with the first nine Republican-led investigations.

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:19 pm

Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:28 pm You know, after all those prior investigations (I think there were 9), they're probably getting pretty good at investigating Benghazi. They've had a lot of practice, and a good deal of experience. They are probably ready to investigate the hell out of Benghazi, BUT ...

They got some 'splainin' to do about what went wrong with the first nine Republican-led investigations.

Benghazi X: Not Fast, Just Furious