A federal judge dismissed Rep. Devin Nunes‘s (R-Calif.) defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post this week.
The dismissal is the latest development in a string of lawsuits Nunes has filed against major news outlets.
D.C. District Judge Amit Mehta sided with the Post on Thursday, writing in his ruling that the newspaper did not act “with ‘actual malice,’ that is, with ‘knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.'”
Mehta, an Obama appointee, noted the newspaper’s position that the article did not report when the president learned of the briefing from Nunes or how he could’ve “conveyed the information” to Trump on a different day.
Nunes, a staunch Trump ally, has filed multiple lawsuits against several media outlets and other companies in recent years, including CNN, Esquire and Twitter.
A federal judge ruled in June that the congressman could not sue Twitter over parody accounts that post in character as Nunes’s cow and mother.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/531703-judge-dismisses-nunes-suit-against-the-washington-post