They don’t actually care. It was about bullying and inconveniencing foes. It cost the administration nothing. It cost taxpayers a little something, and it cost the targets relatively more.
This is about sending a message that if you don’t accept shit being thrown in your general direction, then they will pin you down and dump it on your head. They don’t care if you die suffocated by shit or just stand up and take a shower. They literally don’t care whether you live or die, just that they can hurt you.
The bar for ruling ‘barratry’ or SLAPP should be a LOT lower in the US legal system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry_(common_law)?wprov=sfla1
…of course first all of the King-like blanket immunity BS needs tp be repealed first…
How is this anything but an unfair double standard biased against the GOP? On one hand, it’s against the rules to make explicit calls for illegal actions but on the other, it is okay to tell people not to do illegal things?
Wait, yeah, I heard it.
