A man reporter Nancy Mace (Rs.C.), accused of being part of a group of predators in a stunning speech on the floor, judges her for slander.
The appeal filed on Friday at the Federal Court established a battle for speech and the debate clause of the Constitution, which protects MPs against court cases for things they say and do as part of their legislative work. Mace’s service cites the protection in a press release on its remarks on the floor.
Brian Musgrave was one of the four men, called in February, in which she made a series of accusations of sexual abuse and voyerism, calling Muligue, her ex -fiancé and two other men in South Carolina. All men have denied misconduct.
“Now, with an unbridled disgust, Brian Muligue through this case is forced to say the words:” I’m not a rape. ” “I’m not a predator.” “I’m not sexual traffic,” the lawsuit said.
“Through this action, Brian Musgrave strives to restore what is wrong from him – his good name and reputation,” she continues.
Mace claims to have found a hidden camera on a property owned by her ex -fiancé and a mosquito, who had intimate pictures of women who were taken without their knowledge or consent.
The complaint admits that Musgrave jointly owns South Carolina’s apartment with the former congressional fiancé, which is described as a longtime friend of Musgrave. But the costume says that Musgrave did not put the camera, never had access to it, and did not attend any of what Mayes claims.
Muligience was not accused of the most serious crimes that Mace listed in speech, such as being raped after she had blackened one night and believing that she was “purposefully incapacitated.”
But she listed the Muszer with the other three men and their pictures of a sign she showed on the floor of the house, who said, “Predators.”
Filed in the Federal Court in Charleston, SC, the case names such as defendants Mace and five unnamed people who are said to have talked to her. The case was appointed to US district judge Richard Gergel, appointed to former President Obama.
The lawsuit will be a major and unusual test for the protection of speech and the debate given to the legislators.
Message of Mace’s press about speech, which refers to the fact that the protection and protects the truth of its allegations: “All statements made by members of the Chamber floor are the most important” legislative acts “and protected by the speech and debate clause provided under the State Constitution. Her statements tonight are no assumptions, they are not allegations, they are facts based on information that she revealed and documents she has accidentally discovered. “
Moreover, Musgrave’s claims do not focus on Mace’s remarks on the floor of the house, instead seek a prepared version, which it has spread in advance of the press, displaying the plaque outside its congress, and a series of social media publications that made the social platform X.
“While the Constitution of the United States Constitution provides widespread protection for members of the Congress, acting as part of its advisory process, it does not turn the congress floor into a slander sanctuary, nor does it defend its Mace Congress legislation.
Mace’s congress office did not immediately answer a request for a comment on the case.
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