It’s a simplified description to highlight the absurdity, but in a way they are.
A corporation that was already paid by taxpayers to serve as nothing more than an instrument for voting, and mismanaged that task in historic ways to the point where a significant portion of the population doesn’t believe the vote count, is now leveraging billions of dollars to sue for outrageous damages against individual citizens who contested the vote by charging specific failures, on the theory that their demands that it prove that its count is accurate is somehow *a harmful tort defaming its “honor”.
They have no business doing that even if they did nothing wrong, because arguments and accusations are part and parcel of any voting process, and they were already paid for their troubles in that regard.
In a just world, the states who paid them should demand refunds for the record number of ‘adjudications’ caused by the machines casting the legitimacy of the election into doubt, and the DOJ should be exploring whether Dominion is criminally responsible for damages and costs resulting from post-election protests.
It’s kinda like if the NFL tried to sue people who said that their referees are blind, or demanded to see the replay (not a great simile but I like it).
You can sue anyone for anything, and establishing standing in a defamation suit is pretty straightforward. I'm sure the individuals involved can call upon multiple legal arguments to defend themselves, but standing isn't one of them.
To win a defamation case, Dominion will need to prove actual malice. Good faith accusations and arguments are not going to prove that, so if that's all they have, the people getting sued have nothing to worry about.
Except that the practical result, demonstrated in front of our very eyes, is that the voting machine conspirators (based on a presumptive but reasonable reading of the evidence that no court has yet seen) have used the legal threats to bully (and/or enable complicit media partners to justify) censorship all discussion about the issue from every terrestrial broadcast and cable network (OAN is online only as far a I know).
These "censored" networks are big boy companies, if they felt Dominion had no case, they could've and should've fought it. Their cowardice is their own failing.
It’s a simplified description to highlight the absurdity, but in a way they are.
A corporation that was already paid by taxpayers to serve as nothing more than an instrument for voting, and mismanaged that task in historic ways to the point where a significant portion of the population doesn’t believe the vote count, is now leveraging billions of dollars to sue for outrageous damages against individual citizens who contested the vote by charging specific failures, on the theory that their demands that it prove that its count is accurate is somehow *a harmful tort defaming its “honor”.
They have no business doing that even if they did nothing wrong, because arguments and accusations are part and parcel of any voting process, and they were already paid for their troubles in that regard.
In a just world, the states who paid them should demand refunds for the record number of ‘adjudications’ caused by the machines casting the legitimacy of the election into doubt, and the DOJ should be exploring whether Dominion is criminally responsible for damages and costs resulting from post-election protests.
It’s kinda like if the NFL tried to sue people who said that their referees are blind, or demanded to see the replay (not a great simile but I like it).
You can sue anyone for anything, and establishing standing in a defamation suit is pretty straightforward. I'm sure the individuals involved can call upon multiple legal arguments to defend themselves, but standing isn't one of them.
To win a defamation case, Dominion will need to prove actual malice. Good faith accusations and arguments are not going to prove that, so if that's all they have, the people getting sued have nothing to worry about.
Except that the practical result, demonstrated in front of our very eyes, is that the voting machine conspirators (based on a presumptive but reasonable reading of the evidence that no court has yet seen) have used the legal threats to bully (and/or enable complicit media partners to justify) censorship all discussion about the issue from every terrestrial broadcast and cable network (OAN is online only as far a I know).
These "censored" networks are big boy companies, if they felt Dominion had no case, they could've and should've fought it. Their cowardice is their own failing.