DNC seeks to have Carter Page suit thrown out
Source: Politico
By JOSH GERSTEIN 11/22/2018 12:58 AM EST
The Democratic National Committee and two of its top lawyers have asked a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit former Trump adviser Carter Page filed last month claiming the attorneys and the party libeled him through opposition research painting him as an agent of Russia.
In a motion filed Wednesday in federal court in Oklahoma City, the DNC, attorneys Marc Elias and Michael Sussman and their law firm, Perkins Coie, unleashed a fusillade of technical and substantive attacks on Page’s lawsuit.
The 46-page filing also seeks to shoot down some of Page’s more extreme claims, like an assertion that he is the victim of “terrorism” and that the conduct of the DNC, Elias and Sussman amounted to racketeering under federal law.
However, the main thrust of the defense motion is that Page’s suit is fatally flawed, particularly because he filed it in Oklahoma, and none of the parties appear to have strong ties to the state
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