Posted on 06/11/2022 5:44:03 AM PDT by Libloather
A federal judge in Missouri on Monday pushed a lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers against The Gateway Pundit back to a Missouri circuit court for additional proceedings.
Plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss filed the case against James Hoft, Joseph Hoft, and TGP Communications LLC (the business which operates The Gateway Pundit) in December 2021. The suit alleges two counts of defamation (one involving Freeman, the other involving Moss) and one count of intentional infliction of emotional distress. It seeks nominal damages, compensatory damages (including general, actual, consequential, and special damages), punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, and costs, but no dollar amounts are listed.
The lawsuit also seeks other forms of relief:
Declarative relief stating that the statements authored and published by Defendants identified within this Petition, individually and collectively, were and are false;
Injunctive relief enjoining Defendants to remove their false and defamatory statements about plaintiffs from any website and/or social media accounts under their control.
The lawsuit opened by pointing to the big-picture realities at play - and their effects on individuals:
The intentional dissemination of known falsehoods aimed at sowing doubt about the integrity of our elections threatens our very ability to function as a democracy. These falsehoods also destroy the lives of America’s election workers, whose service to our system of government places them in the crosshairs of those who seek to undermine it with their disinformation. Plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss have been the targets of such a campaign of lies, accused by Defendants James Hoft, Joseph Hoft, and The Gateway Pundit of committing ballot fraud to alter the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The lies about Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss have not only devastated their personal and professional reputations...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Look at the videos. They’re guilty as hell.
From their website: Protect Democracy is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization formed in late 2016 with an urgent and explicit mission: to prevent American democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government.
Our founders, who came from the White House Counsel’s Office and upper echelons of the Department of Justice, assembled a group of some of the world’s leading experts on the decline of democracies in the 21st Century to sound the alarm that the global wave of authoritarianism had landed on U.S. shores.
Yeah and he was called OBAMA!
Yep
Ruby is the one that pulled the boxes of illegal ballots from under the table after the counting supposedly stopped on Election Day.
Odd thing is that the 2 started to plead guilty. And they withdrew it and went not guilty. They were found NOT guilty. I guess the judge said they did there jobs. Guessing they were TOLD by the boss to do it so technically they were doing what they were told. They could win this. This makes me sick. They knew what they were doing. Ruby did a live stream on facebook of her walking into the place around the ballots with no security around them. Grabbed ballots and sat down on a computer and was changing or entering into a computer. She was laughing. I think she was “curing” some of them.
Do you mean like what they did with the 2016 election/Russian collusion hoax right up to the moment the convenient virus arrived from China?
Lead attorney for election workers is United to Protect Democracy.
From their website: Protect Democracy is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization formed in late 2016 with an urgent and explicit mission: to prevent American democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government.
Our founders, who came from the White House Counsel’s Office and upper echelons of the Department of Justice, assembled a group of some of the world’s leading experts on the decline of democracies in the 21st Century to sound the alarm that the global wave of authoritarianism had landed on U.S. shores.
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the DS always tells you exactly what they are doing by projecting it to the opposition.
it’s an old alinsky trick used by hildabeast & hussein
read carefully at the parsing of words & you’ll see they are just laying it out there for all to see.
She needs to get paid in lead.
The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in state court on Dec. 2, 2021. The defendants in Missouri (James Hoft and TGP) were served quickly on Dec. 6, 2021, but the defendant in Florida (Joseph Hoft) wasn’t served until Dec. 14, 2021. The defendants tried to use “snap removal” process to pull the case out of the local courts and into federal court before being served. They filed to remove the case on Dec. 5, 2021, before they were served.
The plaintiffs also argued that the sole defendant with a Florida address was actually a citizen of Missouri, not Florida; the defendants contested that assertion. That issue was ultimately an aside, though; a federal judge said snap removal wouldn’t work this time around.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Henry Edward Autrey, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that the case needed to go back to the City of St. Louis’s circuit court system in Missouri. The crux of the issue was that the defendants sought to remove the case before they had actually been officially served with the original lawsuit.
Waitaminute. Ruby is from Missouri? Is this why she shaddap and lawyered up?
Ruby is the plaintiff, one of the Hofts lives in MO.
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