Posted on 05/28/2021 1:28:56 PM PDT by Twotone
Famed civil liberties attorney Alan Dershowitz won a procedural victory in court Tuesday that will allow his $300 million lawsuit against CNN to proceed to depositions.
Attorneys for CNN filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in November but a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida did not agree with their argument and said Dershowitz can proceed.
The lawsuit claims that CNN unfairly edited comments from Dershowitz about whether former President Donald Trump could have been impeached if he committed an illegal act that he believed was in the public interest.
Dershowitz says in the lawsuit that CNN repeated that clip over and over in order to make him appear as if he "had lost his mind."
Following the airing of that clip over and over again, the hosts, together with their panel guests, including CNN employees and paid commentators, exploded into a one-sided and false narrative that Professor Dershowitz believes and argued that as long as the President believes his reelection is in the public interest, that he could do anything at all – including illegal acts – and be immune from impeachment. The very notion of that was preposterous and foolish on its face, and that was the point: to falsely paint Professor Dershowitz as a constitutional scholar and intellectual who had lost his mind.
CNN's attorneys argued that the lawsuit should be dismissed based on the fair reporting privilege of the press.
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Give ‘em hell, Dersh.
Good.
Squeeze until last last drop of blood drops.
i like it. there should be more of these. this is SOP for the LEFTIST media.
“Judge allows Alan Dershowitz’s $300 million lawsuit against CNN to proceed: ‘I think CNN is quaking in its boots!’”
Goody goody Put me on the jury and I’ll make it a $500 million settlement.
Dersh is one of the better liberals out there.
He announces at every opportunity that he loves Hillary and he voted for her.
But when it comes to First Amendment, he gets conservative-ish.
Any chance that he could add MSLSD and the Mickey Mouse News Network to the case?
Lawsuits like this are dangerous for media outlets but easily anticipated for Leftist propaganda mills. So, no, CNN is not quaking in its boots.
Zucker may be gone before he planned.
If CNN loses, this will be very costly.
Man, if CNN can be sued for the stupid crap they say, they may as well move their studio into the federal courthouse.
CNN will go bankrupt. CNN already paid a very large sum to Nicholas Sandman and Dersh will win too. Not to mention others who may sue due to their propaganda.
Dershowitz is old school democrat. The kind that new-school democrats want to eliminate from the party and from society.
Only $300 million? He is a renowned law professor, they deliberately misrepresented what he said to damage his reputation. I would say $500 to $750 million would be more like it.
Oddly Alan is a liberal. He is a strict Constitutional. He gives deference to all opinions and actions if they are constitutional. He is a good man that defends our sacred document.
They should be making these same arguments every week for different cases involving the very same act of Presstitution using a High Capacity Transmission Device.
What a laugh...sounds like CNN better find some new attorneys.
When did this happen?
I think I see the flaw in their argument. That's the fair reporting privilege, CNN.
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