We’ve said this in posts before, but Rep. Eric Swalwell really has this tough guy act going on Twitter and no one buys it. Here’s a guy who had the ego to think he could win the Democratic primary and be elected president in 2020, and now he’s trolling people on Twitter as if that’s going to get him anywhere.
In any case, lawyer Will Chamberlin took a guess at who was most likely to have leaked the Supreme Court’s decision draft on Roe v. Wade. As we mentioned in another post, the justices rarely print anything, and when they do, it gets shredded and put in the burn bag. A whole lot of protocols had to have been broken for this document to get out; it didn’t just “leak.”
But if you didn’t know who Chamberlin was speculating about, you would after Swalwell decided to retweet her LinkedIn profile with his threat.
Under Supreme Ct law, as a public figure I take a lot of defamatory attacks b/c bar is too high to sue. Ms. Deutsch is not a public figure and would likely have a strong defamation case against @willchamberlain. Republicans are bullies. But they ALWAYS back down when challenged. https://t.co/6sKPfdKNOX
— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) May 4, 2022
It’s a long thread, but the gist of it is that this law clerk is staunchly pro-choice and her husband is a journalist who used to work with the reporter who received the leak.
You're not scaring anyone
but you are getting some of us pretty excited pic.twitter.com/NKp8Bd8SdK
— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) May 4, 2022
https://twitter.com/ToolFree2point0/status/1521992156575055872
This isn’t defamation and you boinked a spy for the communist Chinese government. https://t.co/fATSOtgvyo
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 4, 2022
Your as lousy at being a lawyer as you are at not disgracing yourself. https://t.co/Txi6S53eGD
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 4, 2022
Please hold hearings on the source of the leak, which Congress has an interest in doing as this could have been a hack or a spying operation by Russia.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) May 4, 2022
This is not slander. He states specifically this is conjecture. But she won’t sue because that would give him access to her emails and her phone records and every phone and computer she has access to through discovery.
— Micah Lucas (@commanderhttc) May 4, 2022
Well if it’s true she’ll have zero defense. I say let’s get to discovery already
— Hans (@HansDancin) May 4, 2022
Uhm. Didn’t you just make her a public figure by saying this
— Sethman (@smt813) May 4, 2022
Will must be over the target.
— Spaeth82 (@milehighwing) May 4, 2022
You either haven’t read the thread or have no idea what the standard is for defamation. I am betting on both.
— ElGuapo (@davidrlane1024) May 4, 2022
To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact…given he declares it’s his “opinion” that Elizabeth “likely” leaked the document would make it unlikely to rise to defamation. And, we don’t even know if it’s false.
— Loren Smith (@LoRay_Smith) May 4, 2022
He stated an opinion. Opinions aren't defamation and are protected speech.
— Howard Notelling (@BluegrassPundit) May 4, 2022
So she has denied it? Where?
— @ (@ElonsHouseNow) May 4, 2022
You slept with a spy from communist China. Shut up.
— Jacob Airey (@realJacobAirey) May 4, 2022
What is Supreme Court law, anyway?
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Eric Swalwell says that when the GOP’s done banning abortion, ‘they want to ban interracial marriage,’ too https://t.co/upemWTSC4f
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 3, 2022
