Author: Freedom Watch

By Josh Gerstein POLITICO May 27, 2020 A ruling that emerged from a powerful federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday morning is strong evidence that the courts are unlikely to be receptive to President Donald Trump’s claims that he and his political supporters are being silenced by social media platforms like Twitter. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit resoundingly rejected a lawsuit the conservative legal organization Freedom Watch and right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer filed in 2018 against four major technology companies: Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple. Facebook, Twitter and other platforms have banned Loomer, citing…

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Gibson Dunn Helps Rachel Maddow Beat One America News Network Defamation Suit By Alaina Lancaster Law.com May 24, 2020 “For her to exaggerate the facts and call OAN Russian propaganda was consistent with her tone up to that point, and the Court finds a reasonable viewer would not take the statement as factual given this context,” U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of California. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Ted Boutrous helped convince a San Diego judge to toss a defamation suit against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow after reporting a conservative news outlet had ties to…

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Iran’s supreme leader calls for Israel’s destruction in Twitter screed on anti-Israel holiday By Tyler Olson Fox News May 22, 2020 Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, launched into a lengthy anti-Israel diatribe on Twitter Friday as he marked Quds Day, a holiday held in Iran toward the end of the month of Ramadan meant to express support for Palestinians and opposition to Israel’s existence. The leader, in 25-unthreaded tweets, compared Israel to a “cancerous tumor” and the coronavirus, as he called for the nation to be “uprooted and destroyed.” The ayatollah, who wields complete control over the…

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By Larry Klayman WND May 22, 2020 Among the campaign promises of Donald J. Trump during the 2016 election that yours truly considered to be particularly important, if not compelling, was his commitment to appoint independent-minded federal judges that would obey the Constitution and the rule of law generally. Under Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush and his dad before him, George H.W. Bush, and of course Obama, the nation experienced highly politicized jurists on the federal bench who, depending whatever politically or socially charged issues were before them, I could gauge with almost exact certainty how they would rule.…

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