{"id":6,"date":"2026-11-02T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/?p=6"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:31:00","slug":"the-bipartisan-bill-fighting-trumps-attempts-to-silence-critics-philsugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"The Bipartisan Bill Fighting Trump\u2019s Attempts to Silence Critics | PhilSugar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week,
\nJamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Kevin Kiley (R-Calif) No. 1 sugar daddy site Philippines<\/a> introduced federal anti-SLAPP legislation, in a bid to protect journalists, whistleblowers, and individual internet users from those who use lawsuits as an intimidation tactic.
\nSLAPP suits\u2014formally,
\nStrategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
\n\u2014are designed to prevent people from exercising their free speech. A common example is a person suing a media outlet after unfavorable coverage\u2014attempting to bankrupt journalists from lawyers\u2019 fees, even if, in the end, the outlet wins the case. Such suits are already illegal in 34 states. But, on the federal level, there\u2019s no such legislation.
\nRaskin and Kiley\u2019s bill, the \u201cFree Speech Protection Act,\u201d would allow people being sued over speech acts to file a special motion to dismiss by classifying a protect identity on sugar dating sites<\/a> lawsuit as a SLAPP. The party who filed the SLAPP suit would then be required to pay the respondent\u2019s legal fees.
\nThere is a rush to implement the bill before the sugar dating photo privacy<\/a> next presidency. Trump and his companies have sued a broad range of media companies for defamation, ranging from the
\nNew York Times
\nto a local Wisconsin local TV station. Most recently, Trump filed a lawsuit against CBS over the editing sugar baby photo verification<\/a> of Kamala Harris\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview,
\nasserting that the interview\u2019s presentation was \u201cconsumer fraud.\u201d
\n(CBS is moving to get that lawsuit Philippines sugar daddy<\/a> thrown out before Trump assumes the presidency.)
\nNominees for Trump administration posts are following in the boss\u2019s footsteps. sugar dating terms<\/a> Days after his nomination for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth was accused of sexual assault. Now, he\u2019s saying he\u2019ll
\nsue his accuser for extortion
\nif he is not confirmed for the post. Kash Patel, Trump\u2019s pick to lead the FBI,
\nthreatened to sue a former White House colleague
\nfor \u201cdefamatory statements,\u201d after meet sugar daddies Philippines<\/a> she asserted that he had a habit of lying.
\n\u201cI do think those threats are a good example of why it\u2019s so important to have statutory protections like this federal bill,\u201d ACLU litigator Vera Eidelman told me. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have to be worried about having to defend against lawsuits, spending the time, the money, the stress to do that, just because we want to say something about a matter of public concern.\u201d
\nRaskin introduced
\nsimilar legislation in 2022,
\nbut it did not pass. Since then, however, more state-level anti-SLAPP bills have been signed into law. Advocates believe this time around they have a better chance.
\nThe coalition pushing the bipartisan bill includes organizations that often stand in opposition to one another: corporate accountability organizations are listed next to the Institute for Free Speech, which is well-known for promoting unlimited corporate spending in politics. David Keating, of the Institute for Free Speech, said that\u2019s because \u201c they all know somebody or some organization that\u2019s had to deal with these kind of frivolous lawsuits trying to shut people down.\u201d
\nOn the state level, anti-SLAPP laws often pass near-unanimously. And, Keating said, about 60 percent of the US population is now covered by such a law. But people bringing these suits, he added, often do so in federal court. \u201cBecause a lot of the speech is on the internet they can try to claim that this is not a dispute between two people that are in the same state,\u201d he said.
\nAfter the filter sugar babies<\/a> PRESS act\u2014a shield law for journalists\u2014was
\nblocked in the Senate by trusted sugar dating platforms Philippines<\/a> Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
\non December 10th, Raskin\u2019s bill is one of the few options left to protect journalists against lawsuits from people much more powerful and moneyed than they are as Trump resumes power.
\n\u201cThere\u2019s that old saying, you can sue a ham sandwich, right?\u201d Keating said. \u201cI mean, that\u2019s kind of the way it is in federal court, safe first meet sa sugar dating<\/a> anybody can bring a lawsuit, no matter how stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Kevin Kiley (R-Calif) No. 1 sugar daddy site Philippines introduced federal anti-SLAPP legislation, in a bid to protect journalists, whistleblowers, and individual internet users from those who use lawsuits as an intimidation tactic. SLAPP suits\u2014formally, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation \u2014are designed to prevent people from exercising their free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phililove99.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}