![]() ![]() “Indeed, Plaintiffs themselves characterize the statements at issue as ‘wild accusations’ and ‘outlandish claims.’ They are repeatedly labelled ‘inherently improbable’ and even ‘impossible.’ Such characterizations of the allegedly defamatory statements further support Defendants’ position that reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process. “Given the highly charged and political context of the statements, it is clear that Powell was describing the facts on which she based the lawsuits she filed in support of President Trump,” Powell's defense lawyers wrote in a court filing on Monday. In a new court filing, Powell’s attorneys write that she was sharing her “opinion” and that the public could reach “their own conclusions” about whether votes were changed by election machines. Dominion claims that Powell knew her election fraud accusations were false and hurtful to the company. The election infrastructure company Dominion Voting Systems sued Powell for defamation after she pushed lawsuits and made appearances in conservative media on behalf of then-President Donald Trump to sow doubt about the 2020 election results. ![]() Right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell is claiming in a new court filing that reasonable people wouldn't have believed as fact her assertions of fraud after the 2020 presidential election. And that, of course, means having to once again hear from spineless Republicans whose top priority is ensuring someone intent on killing a bunch of people can buy a gun to do so as quickly as possible.ĭuring a hearing on gun violence on Tuesday-one day after a lone gunman killed 10 people in Colorado and a week after a separate gunman killed eight people in the Atlanta area-Senator Ted Cruz moaned that “every time there is a shooting, we play this ridiculous theater where this committee gets together and proposes a bunch of laws that would do nothing to stop these murders.” In a little catnip to the “they’re taking our guns!” crowd, he added, falsely, that Democrats want to strip “law-abiding citizens” of their right to bear arms: And while the coronavirus is far from over-in fact, new cases are on the rise in 27 states with worrisome variants “ spreading rapidly”-various parts of the country opening up because “ it’s springtime” has led to a return to prepandemic life for many, which in America means a return to looking at one’s phone and learning that countless people were just murdered. One happy by-product of a terrible year that’s kept millions of people at home has been the sharp reduction in mass shootings in the U.S.-in 2020, there were just two, the last one occurring within days of the World Heath Organization officially declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) outdid all of them, though, writing that he and his wife are fervently praying for the families of the victims of the, you guessed it, horrific shooting. ![]()
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