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Former President Donald Trump on Sunday expressed optimism that his legal action against social media companies will be a victory for the Constitution.
They are immune so many different things, but they're not immune from the lawsuit, he said of Silicon Valley during a conspiracy-laden interview on Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel.
What they have done is such a violation of the Constitution, he said, a violation like we've never seen before. They take me down, they take all conservative voices down or most of them. They find them and they take them down. It's a disgrace.
The former president filed a series of class-action lawsuits Wednesday accusing leading social media companies of illegally censoring him.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-his-class-action-lawsuits-are-a-victory-for-free-speech/ar-AAM1k2r
underpants
(182,795 posts)BUHLEEVE me
msfiddlestix
(7,281 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)TFG is such a Constitutional Scholar.....One just never knew..............
FakeNoose
(32,638 posts)Believe me!
Me.
(35,454 posts)Name one, a real one.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)Alan Dershowitz
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)a new schtick. This one is getting prehistoric.
madamesilverspurs
(15,801 posts)is he finding attorneys willing to do any work for him?
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asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)escaped...pick one, henny one!!! But then, his flock will just see the word "victory" and think he won..duh!!!!!
Vinca
(50,269 posts)along the way he may be sitting for hours under oath being deposed about his reasons for being removed from social media. I imagine after he milks this for a few mil from the cult he'll call it a day and withdraw the suit.
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)He will take it to SCOTUS where at least TWO Judges have commented in favor of classifying social media as "State actors"
Fullduplexxx
(7,860 posts)Justice Thomas Wants SCOTUS to Revisit Statute Granting Social Media Platforms Protection from Users' Content
BY JASON LEMON ON 10/13/20 AT 3:01 PM EDT
Justices Gorsuch and Thomas call to revisit landmark First Amendment case New York Times v. Sullivan
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
Updated 11:13 AM EDT, Fri July 02, 2021
If the 1st court rules against him and the appeals court rules against him the s.c. would if they adhered to past practice bot hear the case . But this has gop coordination all over it so the may.
Nictuku
(3,609 posts)it is not actually a class-action suit until.....
Although a lawsuit may be filed and proposed as a class action, it doesn't officially become a class action until the judge in the case issues a ruling known as class certification. In granting class certification, the judge is giving the go-ahead for the case to proceed as a class action.
https://www.classaction.org/learn/faqs
Ocelot II
(115,684 posts)He's trying to get people to sign up as members of this class that will never happen in order only to hit them up for contributions.
Initech
(100,068 posts)Really, there's nothing to sue over.
ProfessorGAC
(65,013 posts)There is nothing consequential unless it happens to him.
Chainfire
(17,536 posts)That may work out, maybe I will demand equal time on Fox.
Marcuse
(7,480 posts)-misanthroptimist
(810 posts)A. Trump knows nothing about the Constitution (or much of anything else, for that matter).
B. The social media companies aren't government, therefore, they aren't violating the Constitution.
C. He violated their TOS.
D. Everything with idiot Trump is "like we've never seen before."
E. He is always a victim in what passes for his mind.
F. Everything he doesn't like is "a disgrace."
He's a complete moron.