The “law” has become simply a club to use against patriots.
But if Nunes had been a Rat, the reporter could be looking at bankruptcy. Or worse, maybe a $787M judgement for pointing out the truth.
In this day and age the left can sue conservatives, but not the other way around.
The truth is an absolute defense in such cases. The fact that apparently Nunes didn't dispute the truth of the allegation in either this original hearing or the appeal is a pretty bad sign.
Let me guess.... no estar de pie 🤣🤣🤣
The essential facts of the piece were accurate. The Nunes’ farm did hire undocumented workers.
“The assertion that NuStar knowingly used undocumented labor is substantially, objectively true,” Williams wrote in his 101-page ruling released Tuesday.
“Williams noted that 243 of 319 workers at NuStar Farms on or before the day the article published did not have Social Security numbers that matched Social Security Administration records. He said evidence showed the farm was warned about this, took expired credentials and did not correctly sign forms that verified employees could work legally in the U.S. Six employees who were subpoenaed by Hearst, which owns Esquire, to prove their work authorization pleaded the Fifth Amendment to not self incriminate.”
“Williams pointed out NuStar Farms never used e-Verify, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s voluntary program for checking a worker’s employment eligibility, even though Nunes praised the program and suggested it should be mandatory in an interview on Fox News in 2019. In a deposition, the judge wrote, Nunes called e-Verify a failed program.”
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article274733536.html