[Red Badger]

Essentially a ‘Directed Verdict’.....................

[Republican in occupied CA]

That’s what appeals are for.

Two different things at issue here:
1-Did Jones knowingly lie/distort truth in a way that harmed someone?

2-is his doing so covered under the First amendment.

Have to determine ‘1’ (by jury) before the second even matters.

*sometimes* things are so obviously covered by the first that the entire case is thrown out, such as with a genuinely public figure, but if I say something scurrilous and defamatory about Red Badger, *knowing* it was untrue, and harm resulted to them from my doing this, that ain’t covered, and shouldn’t be.

[jpp113]

Essentially. And also an adverse jury instruction for his failure to comply with discovery. This is SOP in courts and is not caused by or related to conservative/liberal ideologies. I'm not saying there aren't politically-biased judges who play games, but this article is not evidence of that in the least

Seems like the alt media is trying to play it up as a J6-type kangaroo court case. But It isn't and it is not helpful to the conservative cause. Contrast: What the DOJ is doing with the J6 prisoners is blatantly unconstitutional.