Trump Takes Legal Action Against the Washington Post
Trump Takes Legal Action Against the Washington Post
Donald Trump's campaign filed a Federal Election Commission complaint accusing The Washington Post of making “Illegal Corporate In-Kind Contributions” to Kamala Harris, CNBC reports."The campaign based its accusation on a Semafor report which said that the Post, as part of a ramped-up paid a
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From the CNBC article that is the source for the linked post:
Trump’s suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas, effectively guaranteeing that it would be assigned to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump nominee with a conservative judicial record.
That gives Trump a much better chance of winning than you'd think from only reading the Political Wire post.
There's zero chance this would win. It would effectively bring an end to a free and independent pre......oh........
But even if he does win, there's no way the Supreme Court would upho........oh.......
I guess we can throw "free press" on the growing pile of things in the Constitution that the courts write off as "unenforceable".
Remember when the Constitution was a sacred document of the rights of the People instead of just a list of ideas that can be ignored at will when they become inconvenient? Pepprige farm remembers.
This. Pretty much everyone with a legal degree thinks this case is junk and should be mocked (as per the CNBC article). Alas, it's filled in the one court that would say otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_shopping at it's lowest...