Nunes was a member of the House Baltic Caucus and the U.S.-Japan Caucus. Former Trump campaign CEO and chief strategist Steve Bannon has called Nunes Trump's second-strongest ally in Congress.
Devin Nunes suing Esquire magazine, reporter over article about Iowa farm". Des Moines Register. ^ Katy, Irby (October 1, 2019). "Another Devin Nunes lawsuit: Congressman sues magazine over story about family's Iowa farm". The Fresno Bee.
In January 2021, Trump awarded Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In December 2021, Nunes resigned from the House, effective January 1, 2022, in order to join the Trump Media & Technology Group as chief executive officer.
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on April 15, 2021. U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett determined that an amended version of a lawsuit filed by attorney Steven Biss on behalf of Nunes ' senior aide Derek Harvey late last year was "frivolous," according to court documents obtained by Law & ...
Harvey claimed that suggestions that he was involved in the alleged scheme were false and defamatory. While the original suit claimed that CNN made 20 false claims about Nunes, the amended version included only five alleged falsehoods. Bennett remained unconvinced.
In 2008, he was banned from practicing law for a year after the state bar found that he had "committed a deliberately wrongful act that reflects adversely on his fitness to practice law.". Newsweek reached out to Biss for comment.
Newsweek reached out to Biss for comment. A lawsuit similar to the one involved in Tuesday's ruling was dismissed by a different judge in February. It had been brought against CNN by Nunes himself and sought over $435 million in damages. Nunes has also filed unsuccessful lawsuits against media outlets including Fresno Bee owner McClatchy, ...
Biss has represented Nunes in at least six suits. Biss famously litigated Nunes' beef with Twitter over an account dubbed "Devin Nunes' cow.". The congressman demanded to the learn the identity of the person who ran the account, one of several parody accounts focused on mocking him.
A federal judge in Maryland this week followed through on a previous warning to sanction a lawyer best known for representing Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in a series of failed defamation lawsuits against media companies, saying the lawyer ’s latest case against CNN was “frivolous” in nature.
Harvey and Biss initially argued that CNN made 20 defamatory statements, but later filed an amended complaint that narrowed that number down to five.
How exactly is Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) paying for his probably doomed-to-fail lawsuits against the anonymous owners of several satirical Twitter accounts that frequently lampoon (ed) him by, for example, posing as a cow with the capacity for human thought, language grammar and typing?
House rules prohibit a Member from receiving free legal services, unless the Member establishes a Legal Expense Fund (“LEF”). According to the House Legislative Resource Center, Representative Nunes has not filed any of the required reports to establish an LEF.
As of now, however, Nunes has declined to reveal the exact nature of his legal arrangements—and that’s an obvious transparency issue for a person housed and fed on the public’s dime.