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Monday, October 28, 2019

Big: Nick Sandmann's WaPo Suit Advances

This will be brief. Nick Sandmann's attorneys filed an amended complaint and the judge who initially dismissed Sandmann's suit is allowing three counts to go ahead to the discovery stage. Big win for media accountability.

Per USAToday:

CINCINNATI - A federal judge is allowing a portion of Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann's lawsuit against The Washington Post to continue after first dismissing the case. After reviewing an amended complaint, Judge William Bertelsman ordered Monday that the case could enter the discovery phase and hence a portion of the lawsuit against the newspaper could continue. Nick and his attorneys had alleged that the gist of a  Washington Post article conveyed that Nick had

 And as to the implications:

Per a commenter at FreeRepublic:
According to the Washington Post: 
Nick Sandmann is a smirking hateful bigot. 
However, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is an ‘austere religious scholar’.

This could also be huge for the 2020 election season that's coming up. If discovery uncovers bigoted texts and emails, you can count on Trump being all over it--reminding the rest of America why they hate the liberal media.

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