WASHINGTON — A panel of judges ruled that former U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes could not sue The Washington Post over a 2020 article that described a House Intelligence Committee hearing about the presidential election.
Nunes, who was the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee from January 2019 to January 2022, alleged in his lawsuit that the article defamed him and that the Post conspired with Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to do so.
On Friday, a panel of three judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that the former congressman from Tulare, California, could not continue to sue the Post because “Nunes failed to plausibly allege a claim of defamation,” they wrote in their ruling.
