Roy Moore Loses Lawsuit Against Right Wing Outlet

Law & Crime reports:

Embattled former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice and failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore lost another defamation case Wednesday when a trio of judges appointed by Donald Trump ruled that Moore’s appeal was filed too late.

Moore brought a $40 million defamation lawsuit in 2020 against conservative news outlet The Washington Examiner for a series of articles published the prior year when Moore was campaigning for Senate alleging that Moore engaged in sexual misconduct with teenage girls.

In 2022, Moore lost a similar defamation lawsuit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen over Cohen’s “pedophile detector” comedy sketch. The New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the sketch had been “clearly comedy,” and therefore not defamatory.

Read the full article. Longtime readers will recall that Moore’s Foundation For Moral Law advocates for re-criminalizing homosexuality.

Trump-appointed judges reject ‘untimely’ Roy Moore’s defamation appeal against conservative outlet for implying he’s a ‘pedophile’ https://t.co/yNYoZSCBq8

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