- Via NBC News: Trump sues Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and Des Moines Register newspaper. This is clearly a nuisance suit filed to cause trouble for Selzer and the Register. Petty actions from a petty human being.
- Along the same lines, via The Hill: Judge denies Trump’s request to advance suit against Bob Woodward.
- Via The Hill: Nancy Mace says mysterious drones could be from ‘outer space’. Mace does like that spotlight, does she not?
- Via the AP: A couple hundred North Korean troops killed, wounded in battles with Ukrainian forces.
- Via the AP: Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation.
- Via Axios: Mike Johnson’s magic debt ceiling promise.
- Via NBC News: Senate confirms Biden’s 235th judge, beating Trump’s record.
- Kinda hilarious:
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Nuisance lawsuits can be quite damaging and expensive for individuals. I hope Selzer can get some outside funding (go fund me and such) sufficient enough to countersue for libel, and be very aggressive about it. Let’s see the felon claim he’s too busy working for Xlon, and can’t afford the distraction of a legal proceeding he started.
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We need broader and more effective laws with real punishments against SLAPP suits which is clearly what these are. We need them but probably wont get them. They are a primary tool used by the wealthy and powerful against people they dont like or wish to harm, especially journalists. The wealth no longer stick to running things behind the scenes so they arent going to allow a tool that only they can use to be taken away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation
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The ABC lawsuit was without merit in my opinion, but at least I can see some argument for it on technical legalistic grounds. The Ann Selzer lawsuit is at a different level altogether–it would threaten the entire polling industry if it were ruled in Trump’s favor, because it says essentially you can be held liable for releasing a poll that turns out to show the wrong candidate winning. Biden could have sued Trafalgar in 2020 on those grounds. No pollster would want to release an election poll for fear of being sued later if it turned out to be wrong.
