California Republican Congressman Devin Nunes is suing “dark money” groups claiming they are conspiring to hurt his election campaign. The group had unsuccessfully tried to get Nunes’ “farmer” title removed from the ballot. One prominent lawyer thinks the lawsuit won’t survive the state’s anti-SLAPP protections. (Sacramento Bee, August 3, 2019, by Brianna Calix)
Mike Masnick in techdirt, August 5, 2019, notes the irony of Nunes’ lawsuits against critics while he votes in Congress to protect free speech. Masnick writes that Nunes is suing a number of political opponents for attacking his campaign even claiming in one lawsuit that his campaign suffered loss of business and income.
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