Taxpayers pay $185,000 so far to defend Rep. Clemons in free speech suit
Taxpayers so far have paid $185,000 to attorneys defending Rep. Chuck Clemons in the lawsuit brought against him by a man Clemons blocked from his Twitter account, records show. And the case, which has dragged on for more than three years, is nowhere close to over as a bench trial has been scheduled in Gainesville for early June. It’s a case in which both sides are using a First Amendment rights argument. In February 2018, Gainesville resident Peter Morgan Attwood sued Clemons in federal court. Clemons, R-Newberry, blocked Attwood on Twitter after Attwood asked the lawmaker to explain a 2...
Source: gainesville.com