CCJ Sighting: Praying Not to Get Sued Any More
Apologies if this sickens anyone hereabouts (sorry, dear host), but CCJ is quoted fawningly in the US News & World Report article about Congresspeople Kevin McCarthy and Renee Ellmers, who CCJ accused last year of having a sexual relationship - accusations that allegedly cost McCarthy his shot at the House Speakership.
Under the clickbait headline “Lawmakers accused of knocking boots haven’t brought heel down on blogger,” we find wonderful nuggets, such as this:
Johnson adds: “I’m actually a little disappointed they didn’t decide to sue me, because I thought it would be interesting to depose members of Congress. … They’re totally not going to sue at all because they know I was correct.”
Although his reports contained little information about his sources and their specific claims, Johnson says he spoke with his sources about the possibility of them stepping forward if legal action required it, and says they indicated they would.
Oh, Christ. Someone’s paying attention to the floor-shitter, and now he’s convinced that he’s the second coming of Woodward & Bernstein.
Only, when you look closer at the story, you note on repeated occasions, that there is no sourcing to any of it, and nothing to indicate anything other than it was the product of speculation, vindictiveness and rampant egomania.
Someone please start a GoFundMe for these assclowns.
Johnson isn’t necessary out of the woods. There’s still time for a last-minute defamation lawsuit and he says he’s not sure how he would fight a hypothetical invasion of privacy lawsuit from the lawmakers — Rachlinski notes California’s broad intrusion law has a two-year filing deadline, though Volokh points out actual affairs among politicians would be considered newsworthy — or a flotilla of lawsuits from a well-funded anonymous adversary.
“This could be famous last words, but I don’t think people will actually come after me because I break a few rules,” Johnson says.