Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., just got a legal notice that she’s being sued — and the fight could derail her 2020 presidential hopes.
Lawyers representing high school students from Covington Catholic in Kentucky named Warren as their next target in the legal fight to restore their clients’ good names.
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In January, the high schoolers made national news and were labeled racists by liberal lawmakers and media pundits for allegedly harassing an American Indian. The man claimed to have served in the Vietnam War and said the students, wearing their “Make America Great Again” hats, confronted him.
But after the full video came out of the incident, it shows the man was the one who confronted the boys. Indeed, they were racially harassed by another activist group using hate speech just moments beforehand.
“Several of our Senators, most-famous celebrities, and widely read journalists, collectively used their large social media platforms, perceived higher credibility and public followings to lie and libel minors they never met, based on an event they never witnessed,” Law & Crime reported the lawsuit read.
Warren was named in the lawsuit, as well as Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., CNN’s Ana Navarro, The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, celebrity Kathy Griffin, ABC News’ Matthew Dowd, former CNN anchor Reza Aslan, Princeton University History Professor Kevin M. Kruse, activist and journalist Shaun King, Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery, and others.
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“These defendants called for the kids to be named and shamed, doxxed and expelled, and invited public retaliation against these minors from a small town in Kentucky. The defendants circulated false statements about them to millions of people around the world. The video of the entire event, known to the defendants, exposed all of their factual claims against the kids as lies,” the lawsuit says.
“The defendants were each individually offered the opportunity to correct, delete, and/or apologize for their false statements, but each refused, continuing to circulate the false statements about these children to this very day on their social media platforms they personally control.”
A lawsuit filed on behalf of one student was dismissed by a Kentucky judge on Jul. 26, The Daily Wire reported. The $250 million lawsuit targeting The Washington Post was dismissed because the paper never mentioned the plaintiff by name.
The new lawsuit seeks to remedy that problem by naming specific instances these people used their power to falsely libel the students.
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It could cost Warren a lot of money and time — right when she needs both to focus on her 2020 presidential hopes.
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