Posted on 04/27/2024 2:45:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The lawyer who originally represented former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson before the Jan. 6 Select Committee has filed a motion to the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Georgia asking for a default judgement in his suit against the government.
In December, Stefan Passantino sued the government alleging that the House Democrat-led Jan. 6 investigation violated his rights to due process and tarnished his reputation for uncritically reproducing Hutchinson's claims about his legal representation of her.
The government failed to respond to the complaint by the deadline, April 15. Instead, it filed a request for an extension on the last day, which was denied. Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a defendant who fails to respond to a lawsuit may be subjected to a default judgment issued upon pleadings like those filed by Passantino.
"As of the time of this filing, the United States of America has not answered or otherwise responded to the Complaint and thus it is in default," their filing read, according to court documents reviewed by Just the News.
The Jan. 6 Select Committee in its final report of December 2022 has accused Passantino of coaching or pressuring Cassidy Hutchinson before her testimony before the committee to stay loyal to Trump, something he has adamantly denied. This was cited as a reason her original testimony about the events of that day changed so drastically.
Just the News previously documented several new narratives Hutchinson brought to the committee after Passantino ceased representing her, including the infamous story about then-President Trump allegedly grabbing the wheel of the presidential vehicle in anger.
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Go, Team, Go!!
The individual J6 Committee members can’t be held criminally liable for lies and slander they do in Congress, but the committee can apparently be sued for damages because of their failure to give due process.
Right after this guy wins Trump should also file suit.
Ideally, the House would require Nancy Pelosi to reimburse the US taxpayers because it was her refusal to seat R members as required by the rules that led to that whole tortuous mockery of due process.
Cassidy is a piece of work.
What a compulsive liar and attention whore.
And every J6 defendant should file the same suit - the J6 Committee claiming their actions were deliberate sabotage when in many instances they were either responding to attacks on them or had no way of knowing what they were doing was not allowed.
Ryan Samsel should sue them to get his freedom and his health back, after the federal bastards moved him to a deadly prison (even worse than the one where he’s been subjected to what human rights groups say is torture) just because he confirmed that Ray Epps lied in a phone call to the FBI when he said he tried getting Epps to stop. Epps documentably lied about other stuff to the FBI in that call (claiming he was listening to Trump’s speech when in reality he was coordinating the removal of the barricades at the Capitol.
But the feds punished Samsel because he told the truth.
Man, I cannot even say how outraged I am by that, and by the failure of anybody in DC to hold these murderous bastards at the DOJ accountable for the murders they’ve done and are trying to do even as we speak!!
Why are her substantial “corrections” to her statements not considered perjury?
Should be when Epps claimed to the FBI that he tried to get Samsel to stop. Epps was actually urging everybody to go into the Capitol.
That is a great question.
While on CSpan promoting her book, Cassidy said, “Nancy Pelosi who I worked with her and her staff during my tenure at the White House. And I think about her moral leadership that she has set for generations of women and little girls. If I can amount to a fraction of who those women are.”
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