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Woman who accused Roy Moore of sexual misconduct sues him for defamation (Leigh Corfman)
Washington Post ^ | 01/04/2018 | Beth Reinhard

Posted on 01/04/2018 2:50:07 PM PST by Drew68

In a lawsuit that echoes a civil case against President Trump, an Alabama woman on Thursday sued failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore and his campaign for defamation, citing harsh personal attacks she faced after coming forward with allegations he touched her sexually when she was 14 years old.

Leigh Corfman is not seeking financial compensation beyond legal costs. She is asking for a declaratory judgment of defamation, a public apology from Moore, and a court-enforced ban on him or his campaign publicly attacking her again. She said in a statement that the suit seeks “to do what I could not do as a 14-year-old — hold Mr. Moore and those who enable him accountable.”

A representative of Moore’s campaign, Brett Doster, said he had no immediate comment on the lawsuit, filed in state court in Montgomery County, Ala.

Corfman told The Washington Post in November that when Moore was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney in 1979, he took her to his house, undressed her, touched her over her underpants and bra and guided her hand to touch his genitals over his underwear.

Moore has called Corfman’s allegations of abuse “politically motivated,” “completely false” and “malicious.” On Nov. 10, the day after the story published, he told Sean Hannity of Fox News he had never met Corfman but he did not rule out that he might have dated older teenagers when he was in his 30s.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: roymoore
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What a disaster this guy was.
1 posted on 01/04/2018 2:50:07 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68

Yes, Mitch McConnell and Richard Shelby are complete disasters. They’re lying, backstabbing swampocrats.


2 posted on 01/04/2018 2:52:20 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Drew68

Worst candidate ever...


3 posted on 01/04/2018 2:53:08 PM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocke)
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To: Drew68
What a disaster this guy was.

Oh, please. He was viciously targeted as what the democrats feared most - a conservative.

4 posted on 01/04/2018 2:53:10 PM PST by fwdude (Why is it that the only positive things to come out of LGBT organizations are their AIDS tests?)
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What a disaster this guy was.

And of course i'm not at all surprised it is you posting a nonsensical opinion.

Given the woman's history, I think she has just made a huge blunder.

5 posted on 01/04/2018 2:53:42 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Drew68

Good to know your candidate Doug Jones got in. Hey how did a leftard troll since 2001 still not get the zot?


6 posted on 01/04/2018 2:55:31 PM PST by beergarden
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So he wasn’t a disaster?

He lost to a D in Alabama.


7 posted on 01/04/2018 2:57:08 PM PST by EEGator
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Worst candidate ever...

I see other people are parroting their talking points from the Washington Swamp.

Moore was a great candidate for the state of Alabama, but fending off lurid accusations from democrat kooks amplified by the media would have only been possible without the backstabbing from Richard Shelby and the other Republicans who denounced Moore before the election.

When your own party treats you like you are a pariah and urges people to vote for someone else, there aren't many candidates that could overcome that.

8 posted on 01/04/2018 2:57:08 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Given the woman's history, I think she has just made a huge blunder.

I'll bet Moore gives her everything she's asking for.

What say you?

9 posted on 01/04/2018 2:57:33 PM PST by Drew68
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To: beergarden

Well not all trolls get the zot.


10 posted on 01/04/2018 2:57:58 PM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5W)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Discovery will be a bitch for her.


11 posted on 01/04/2018 2:58:02 PM PST by Ingtar
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To: Drew68

We’re still waiting for Roy Moore to file his lawsuits against his accusers and against the Washington Post, aren’t we?


12 posted on 01/04/2018 2:58:49 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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He defamed HER??? I hope he comes back at her both barrels.


13 posted on 01/04/2018 2:59:37 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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So he wasn’t a disaster?

He lost to a D in Alabama.

Based on accusations by kook Democrats and deliberate backstabbing by Republican @$$holes who should have just kept their mouths shut.

Moore was stabbed in the back by the Swamp creatures in his own party. He was stabbed in the front by the Swamp creatures of the Democrat party. After the stabbings, he was a bad candidate, because he then had stab wounds in both the front and the back.

14 posted on 01/04/2018 3:00:06 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Discovery will be a bitch for her.

I doubt she has anything to fear.

15 posted on 01/04/2018 3:00:19 PM PST by Drew68
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I cannot help but put a shoe on the other foot. Use of this language, “... an Alabama woman on Thursday sued failed U.S. Senate candidate ...”, appears to me to be part of the toolbox that the LEFT uses against the reprehensible deplorables. To anyones knowledge, has any MSM writer/commentator spoken of Hillary or Bernie as a “failed US Presidential Candidate”? Al Gore or John Kerry?

Curious, that!


16 posted on 01/04/2018 3:01:33 PM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Moore was a terrible candidate by any objective measure. One reason I say this is that he was totally ill-equipped to serve in a legislative role. He gave every indication that he would have been an enormous pain in the ass in Washington, and would have accomplished absolutely nothing for his efforts.

A guy like that is much better in a judicial post or an executive branch appointment.

17 posted on 01/04/2018 3:01:48 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: Drew68

Doug Jones ran (and got away with it) as a moderate. There is no such thing as a moderate Democrat. He was asked on Morning Joe what issues he could agree with Republicans on, and he could not name one.


18 posted on 01/04/2018 3:02:55 PM PST by Saltmeat
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I'll bet Moore gives her everything she's asking for.

Because she has some sort of proof other than her drug-addled-promiscuous-suicide-attempting-40-year-old claims?

I doubt it.

What say you?

I say that I very much doubt she can prove any of her claims, and that she will likely regret opening this can of worms, because her life will be put on trial, and from what i've read of it so far, it's not going to play well.

19 posted on 01/04/2018 3:03:16 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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He defamed HER??? I hope he comes back at her both barrels.

Don't hold your breath.

Moore is going to quietly slink away to enjoy his retirement and the SevenSuperGirls channel on YouTube. He'll apologize to Corfman and never run for office again.

Mark this post.

20 posted on 01/04/2018 3:03:48 PM PST by Drew68
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