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It should first be noted that it was tossed by a Trump appointed judge. Nunes sued over an article claiming much of Nunes employee's were illegal (undocumented) aliens. The facts bore out that indeed many of his employee's were illegals.
It takes pretty big balls to sue someone for telling the facts about you. Now will anything be done about his business operating with so many illegals?
U.S. District Judge C.J. Williams, a Trump appointee, ruled that Nunes had neither shown he had been harmed by the article nor that Lizza's reporting on NuStar's heavy reliance on undocumented immigrants was false. In fact, Williams wrote in his 101-page opinion, "the assertion that NuStar knowingly used undocumented labor is substantially, objectively true."
Williams wrote that 243 of the 319 NuStar employees the court had run past the Social Security Administration had birth dates, names, and Social Security Numbers that matched no SSA records. He also pointed out that NuStar has never used the Homeland Security Department's e-Verify program to check on the status of its farm workers, and that Nunes had called e-Verify a failed program in a deposition while saying publicly it works "really, really well" and should be mandatory.
Judge tosses Devin Nunes' libel suit, ruling it 'objectively true' his family farm used undocumented migrants
Nunes, who left Congress last year to head up former President Donald Trump's social media company,
It takes pretty big balls to sue someone for telling the facts about you. Now will anything be done about his business operating with so many illegals?
U.S. District Judge C.J. Williams, a Trump appointee, ruled that Nunes had neither shown he had been harmed by the article nor that Lizza's reporting on NuStar's heavy reliance on undocumented immigrants was false. In fact, Williams wrote in his 101-page opinion, "the assertion that NuStar knowingly used undocumented labor is substantially, objectively true."
Williams wrote that 243 of the 319 NuStar employees the court had run past the Social Security Administration had birth dates, names, and Social Security Numbers that matched no SSA records. He also pointed out that NuStar has never used the Homeland Security Department's e-Verify program to check on the status of its farm workers, and that Nunes had called e-Verify a failed program in a deposition while saying publicly it works "really, really well" and should be mandatory.
Judge tosses Devin Nunes' libel suit, ruling it 'objectively true' his family farm used undocumented migrants
Nunes, who left Congress last year to head up former President Donald Trump's social media company,
