Appeals Court Tosses Devin Nunes’ Suit Against CNN

First, a reminder on what happened back in March:

A Florida judge has tossed Devin Nunes’ lawsuit against CNN and one of its anchors, saying that the former congressman filed it in the wrong state.

Nunes, who left Congress in 2022 to become the chief executive of former President Donald Trump’s media company, was suing CNN and Jake Tapper over comments the Washington correspondent made concerning Republicans who spread conspiracy theories about the autumn attack on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul.

The former congressman’s complaint against CNN, filed Nov. 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, pointed to five sets of statements made in an Oct. 31 show and claimed they were defamatory.

And below is latest. Yesterday Truth Social sued the Washington Post for $3.78 billion, claiming they were defamed in a story about the company’s parent taking a $6 million loan from an outfit that handles payments for porn sites. Nunes has filed over a dozen defamation suits and has lost them all.

DISMISSED: In March, a federal judge in Florida threw out a suit former Rep. Devin Nunes filed against CNN re Paul Pelosi https://t.co/HUk63ZwYar Nunes promptly appealed, but per docket his lawyers did not respond to notices from 11th Circuit, which tossed the appeal today

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) May 22, 2023