Posted on 07/25/2019 5:17:48 PM PDT by tired&retired
I know Congress is exempt while on the floor, but off the floor they should be vulnerable for damages.
Prison Time is more effective.
Why on earth would we want them to stop?
And they will then do the same on any Trump tweet they can.
If it bugs folks that much, don’t watch.
Civil comes after criminal.
I don’t think so. They chose to be “public figures”.
Prison Time is more effective.
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..and all their net-worth. Trump would give it to charity.
NO; we have lousy libel laws!
On the house floor, they are immune to sedition and libel. I think for Senators they have to be in the well of the Senate.
If a legislator defames a person while in the Chamber or during a hearing, they get a pass. If they make the same defamatory statement about that person in the hallway or to the press, it could be defamation.
If a politicians directs their vitriol towards a private individual or group, there is a definite cause of action.
I’m pretty sure that Brennan (and Clapper and others) going on CNN a gazillion times to promote what can be demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that he knew was a baldfaced slander meets all the threshold requirements for slander, even in a public figure case. These aren’t one-off comments, this was a sustained campaign of deliberate falsehoods.
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