Richard Jewell's life was destroyed over the same thing except social media was tiny compared to today, so I hope Denton Loudermill sues the fuck out of them.
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“There’s nothing that I see even worth that,” Brattin said when asked if he planned to apologize. “We’ve done nothing and, you know, I have no comment.”
Yeah definitely sue this guy
He gave a comment, then said "no comment." What he really said is we're innocent and we're not interested in replying to facts.
These guys are so self righteous and so far up their own asses they can't even understand they were wrong and have the basic decency to admit it. They probably see apologizing as a form of weakness. Would trump apologize, they ask themselves? Hell no!
Nope, Trump would rather owe $83M like a man!
Yeah definitely sue this guy
Sounds good, but won't affect him personally, since taxpayers would be left holding the bag (as usual).
No because these were not official acts, which have a 100% constitutional protection. They’d be sued personally as private citizens.
They'd be sued personally as private citizens.
It would be great if they were held personally accountable, but I wouldn't be surprised if what usually happens, happens again.
A politician on the floor can't be held liable for any ridiculous lie they tell.
But I'm not sure it covers tweeting even if they're doing it while on the floor
This is America, they need to be sued for this shit or they'll never stop.
Not an official act.
Surprise surprise, it was fucking Republicans doing it and they're refusing to take responsibility