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BY BRIANNA CALIX
SEPTEMBER 04, 2019 03:10 PM
UPDATED 5 HOURS 44 MINUTES AGO
... The campaign for Devin Nunes on Tuesday dropped its lawsuit against the people who accused the Republican congressman of being a fake farmer and tried to get his ballot designation removed ...
Brian Whelan, a local attorney representing Nunes constituents, said in a news release his clients prevailed and won without having had to square off. He represents retired farmer Paul Buxman, librarian Hope Nisly and Daniel OConnell, an agrarian scholar.
Nunes lawsuit was an attack on his clients rights to free speech and to petition the government, Whelan said.
Mr. Nunes made a statement that these important rights were to be disregarded when applied to the very powerful, Whelan said ...
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article234719422.html
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)By Rachel Weiner September 4 at 8:55 PM
Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California has filed a lawsuit claiming a left-leaning transparency nonprofit conspired with a research firm to damage his reputation.
The lawsuit in federal court in Alexandria follows two that Nunes filed in state court against parody Twitter accounts, Twitter, a Republican strategist and the media company McClatchy for reporting on or mocking him.
In the federal suit, Nunes says ethics complaints filed by the Campaign for Accountability are retaliation for his work on the House Intelligence Committee, in which he has repeatedly impugned the integrity of the firm Fusion GPS and the credibility of a dossier a researcher hired by the firm compiled on President Trumps alleged connections to Russia ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/devin-nunes-suing-glenn-simpson-and-ethics-group-claiming-conspiracy/2019/09/04/550322f8-cf63-11e9-b29b-a528dc82154a_story.html
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)James Ward, Visalia Times-Delta
Published 4:44 p.m. PT Sept. 4, 2019
Updated 5:12 p.m. PT Sept. 4, 2019
... Nunes' Central Valley-based attorney, Peter Kapetan, argued the Tulare County lawsuit was dropped so some of the allegations could be incorporated into a $9.9 million racketeering lawsuit Nunes' legal team filed on Wednesday in Virginia against Fusion GPS and Campaign for Accountability, Inc.
A search of that lawsuit, though, found no mention of the farmer smear or Buxman, OConnell or Nisly ...
https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2019/09/04/devin-nunes-drops-tulare-county-farmer-suit/2215421001/
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)He appears to hold a mistaken belief that no one should be allowed to criticize him at any time, in any way.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Only a fake congressman like Nunes. What a fool!