Devin Nunes is "gonna come after you" if you "defame" him on Twitter. Lawsuits every two weeks.

[Miles Archer]

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) promised that he would file more lawsuits to “come after” people who “defame” him and other politicians on Twitter.

Nunes made the remarks during an interview with Mark Levin, where he discussed his lawsuit against Twitter. It was pointed out by The Democratic Coalition, a left-leaning PAC, on Wednesday evening.

“Sorry you just don’t get to defame politicians and put it out on Twitter anymore,” the California lawmaker said. “I mean, you can do it. But I’m gonna come after you.”

During the interview, the California lawmaker promised to file more lawsuits in the coming weeks, likely what he was referring to when he said he could “come after” people. He said he expects suits to be filed “about every two weeks.”

“I’m going to go after all these fake news stories, and these social media giants—or the tech oligarchs as I call them—and I’m going to go after them. The only way I have to do it is through the courts,” he said.

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/devin-nunes-twitter-come-after/

[RockRaven]

1. How many frivolous lawsuits can a person file before they get sanctioned by a court?

Asking for a sh*t-head traitor...

[leftieNanner]

2. Good luck with that Devin!

Have you ever heard the term SATIRE?

I'll wait for you to look it up.

(Cue Jeopardy music)

There now. Don't you feel better?

BTW, the Cow is very funny and you are NOT.

[getagrip_already]

3. his goal isn't to win the suits...

Just to tear into people financially (it costs a lot to defend yourself, especially if you are out of state) and force people to self censor.

It's a SLAPP tactic. But CA has a very strong anti-SLAPP law. I'm surprised nobody has invoked it yet. Maybe he hasn't crossed a magic line yet?

[Timmygoat]

7. I think one of the funniest things

about Nunes is the night when he was lurking about outside the W@hite House, supposedly with information for them (which had been
given to him by them) I don't think he is quite right!

[atreides1]

11. Okay.

But if a judge rules the lawsuit as frivolous, can't that same judge also order that the plaintiff pay all costs,to include those incurred by the defendants...I seem to recall that Stormy Daniels had to pay the court costs for her lawsuit against Trump!

[TomSlick]

13. Yes.

Most states have some version of Rule 11, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, that allows an award of costs and attorney's fees in frivolous lawsuits.

[getagrip_already]

16. but nunes isn't paying either way probably....

I suspect he has some dark money source that's paying all his legal fees. It will still be a huge financial pita for anyone he targets unless a group like aclu jumps in to help the plaintiffs.

He can keep the harassment up for quite a while before a judge stops him. They are reluctant to label someone a vexatious litigant. Anti-SLAPP laws will kick in before that happens I suspect.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. HEY DEVIN!!!

Moo, motherfucker.,

[dem4decades]

5. Maybe Lawrence Tribe should go after Nunes. A fight I'd like to see.

[Princess Turandot]

6. Prime ribbing...

I'd like to have seen the look on the face of the federal court clerk who processed the paperwork when he realized that a sitting US congressman is suing an imaginary Internet cow.

[madinmaryland]

12. I think it was more like a rump roast.

[Marie Marie]

8. I'm confused. Wasn't it the Republicans who, a few years ago,

were all hot on torte reform because they claimed there were too many frivolous lawsuits. Oh wait, now I remember, they were protecting big corporations from being sued, no matter the harm they or there products caused.

[getagrip_already]

9. in fact, nunes sponsored a bill to reduce frivolous lawsuits.......

So at least he learned something.

[Marie Marie]

17. Really? I didn't know that.

What a tool.

[getagrip_already]

18. here is the bill....

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1179


H.R.1179 - Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act

[Sherman A1]

10. Good for him

The sniveling little twit.

[struggle4progress]

14. "Maybe someone with no real skills can become rich through lawsuits"

[struggle4progress]

15. Bonkers $250 million lawsuit over mean tweets

MAR. 18, 2019
Jonathan Chait

Representative Devin Nunes, who is bringing a $250 million suit against Twitter because he has been the subject of mean tweets, is not an obscure kook. He is a famous and highly influential kook who chaired the House Intelligence Committee until January. From this perch, he largely orchestrated President Trump’s legal defense in the Russia scandal, ejecting a wild flurry of charges that Trump is the subject of a deep state conspiracy, running a sham inquiry that claimed to clear the president of all wrongdoing, and feeding scoops to the conservative media to support Trump’s no-collusion narrative. For these efforts, Trump has praised Nunes as “a very courageous man,” and suggested that he deserves to win the Medal of Freedom ...

Nunes’s legal case hinges on the argument that Twitter is not merely a platform for users, but a media company with a distinct point of view. “Twitter actively censors and shadow-bans conservatives, such as Plaintiff, thereby eliminating his voice while amplifying the voices of his Democratic detractors,” the suit argues. (Nunes is referencing a conspiracy theory; Twitter does not “shadow-ban conservatives,” nor promote Democrats.)

Even if Twitter did exclude conservatives in the way he alleges, it would hardly support his lawsuit. The First Amendment provides broad legal protection for the criticism, including mockery and satire, of public officials. If Twitter wanted to censor conservatives and promote mockery of Devin Nunes, it would have a strong constitutional basis to do so.

Nunes provides almost no arguments to support his demand, which would overturn decades of well-settled legal precedent. In place of the extremely novel constitutional case he needs to make, his lawsuit asserts that the existence of very mean tweets “runs contrary to every tenet of American Democracy, including the guarantees of both the First Amendment and Article I, § 12 of the Virginia Constitution. In the words of the late United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., ‘If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate’” ...

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/devin-nunes-files-bonkers-usd250-million-suit-over-mean-tweets.html