Posted on 06/07/2021 1:00:45 AM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) has been served with a lawsuit filed by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), days after attorneys for Swalwell said they were having trouble tracking down the Alabama Republican, Brooks and a Swalwell representative confirmed.
The lawsuit accuses Brooks and other allies of former President Trump of provoking the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Brooks tweeted on Sunday that he had been served with the suit and claimed members of "Swalwell's team" broke into his home and served the lawsuit to his wife.
Speaking to CNN, Philip Andonian, an attorney for Swalwell, shot back at Brooks's claims of unlawful entry.
"No one entered or even attempted to enter the Brooks' house. That allegation is completely untrue. A process server lawfully served the papers on Mo Brooks' wife, as the federal rules allow," Andonian said.
"This was after her initial efforts to avoid service. Mo Brooks has no one but himself to blame for the fact that it came to this," Andonian continued. "We asked him to waive service, we offered to meet him at a place of his choosing. Instead of working things out like a civilized person, he engaged in a juvenile game of Twitter trolling over the past few days and continued to evade service. He demanded that we serve him. We did just that. The important thing is the complaint has been served and Mo Brooks can now be held accountable for his role in inciting the deadly insurrection at the Capitol."
Swalwell's lawsuit, filed in March, accuses the former president, his onetime personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, his son Donald Trump Jr. and Brooks of instigating the Jan. 6 riot and breaking multiple Washington, D.C., laws in the process. The suit specifically cites the "Stop the Steal" rally that took place immediately before rioters broke into the Capitol.
Trump has claimed that he holds "absolute immunity" from Swalwell's lawsuit and called for it to be dismissed in his own court filing.
Swalwell the guy who has been sleeping with the Chinese spy?
The guy was doing the nasty with a Chinese spy while sitting on the Intel committee this guy should be tried for espionage in a sane world
Lawfare, plain and simple.
At some point people will quit putting up with this crap.
I wonder when?
Yup, lawfare. Probably will be thrown out of court immediately, but meanwhile the propaganda media will go to town on it. And a bunch of lawyers will collect enough in fees for new Lambos.
More lawfare from criminal democrats.
Fart Boy Swalwell is serving his Chinese masters (or mistress) by trying to distract the public as more evidence is revealed that points to COVID-19’s origins in the the Wuhan lab and the possibility that it was part of a bio weapons project.
“No one entered or even attempted to enter the Brooks’ house. That allegation is completely untrue...”
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Parsing the lawyerese, this means they evaded the gate and managed to get onto the Brooks’s property. She then met them out on the driveway in her housecoat and slippers where she was served. So while they technically did not “attempt to enter the house,” they did enter the property somewhat forcefully, and they probably would have attempted to enter the house if she had not gone out to meet them. That’s my provisional interpretation anyway.
Let’s lawfare back. Sue Pelosi for dismissing the National Guard Trump offered.
Sue Schumer for his six ways from Sunday intelligence agencies getting back at you.
Sue Adam Schitt for his lies on the Ukraine phone call.
Sue Pelosi for dismissing the National Guard .....yes yes yes!
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"No one entered or even attempted to enter the Brooks' house. That allegation is completely untrue. A process server lawfully served the papers on Mo Brooks' wife, as the federal rules allow," Andonian said.
Note that they did not quote Brooks saying "house" or "home", they paraphrased - which makes me think he likely said "property".
Swalwell’s goons were lucky they didn’t bust in to the wrong house. If Mo were on top of his game, they would have been laying in the floor after they broke in.
Imagine a USA where a communist collaborator files an insurrection lawsuit against a patriot. That is our new world
50 years ago he would have been hung.
Better yet, imagine a USA whose Capital City’s jails are full of innocent Patriots. Makes you Proud, doesn’t it?
Well, Swalwell FINALLY did his job, served complaint (on my WIFE).HORRIBLE Swalwell’s team committed a CRIME by unlawfully sneaking INTO MY HOUSE & accosting my wife!
Alabama Code 13A-7-2: 1st degree criminal trespass. Year in jail. $6000 fine.
More to come!
Then a few hours later he followed with this:
@EricSwalwell team committed Criminal Trespass INSIDE Mo Brooks’ home. #CNNSwalwell attorney Phillip Andonian denies agent’s crime. Agent’s video is PROOF! Release it!
Experts to download home security video tomorrow.
Arrest warrant to be sought.
So Mo's not backing down and I'm inclined to believe him--though with the caveat that his knowledge of what happened is secondhand. I guess the video will clinch it.
Excellent strategy Swalwell’s part. The people in Alabama are never going to vote for Brooks now./s/
When someone has the guts to do the right thing and walk up to Swalwell and do a Mike Tyson impression.
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