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To: stylin19a

if he did it in the House or it’s related to his “legislative” duties, he has absolute immunity. Speech or Debate Clause.

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He even did it on FoxNews today! :)


1,199 posted on 12/15/2019 8:00:38 PM PST by bitt (When the law enforcers turn out to be the law breakers, then we have totally upended the rule of law)
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To: bitt

Does he have absolute immunity from leaked videos of him using drugs in the House? (Or elsewhere.)

(That’s one of the things I’m hoping for upon reconsideration
of what Nunes may have been referring to...)

~Easy


1,206 posted on 12/15/2019 8:12:55 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: bitt
one way or another..immune...see Wuterich v. Murtha (Haditha Marines)... it started as a speech and debate suit, but they had to jump through hoops to switch to Westfall Act to do it....see Wuterich v. Murtha. Murtha was removed from the suit and the U.S.A. was substituted

In 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in Murtha’s favor, accepting his argument that he was acting in an official capacity, concluding that he was immune from suit, and ordering dismissal of the case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. This decision was based not on the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution, but on the Westfall Act, a federal statute that “accords federal employees absolute immunity from common-law tort claims arising out of acts they undertake in the course of their official duties.

Westfall Act

The Westfall Act's core purpose — to relieve covered employees from the cost and effort of defending the lawsuit and to place those burdens on the Government

also Sharratt v Murtha (same type of suit - another Haditha Marine)

1,208 posted on 12/15/2019 8:17:47 PM PST by stylin19a ((2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever))
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