Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint in the House of Representatives on Friday against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for reaching a “new level of abhorrent behavior” after she displayed sexually explicit pictures of him during a hearing Wednesday.

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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately she’s protected by congressional immunity. If only people in power didn’t create special rules for themselves.

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      1 year ago

      Only when she says it on the floor as a congresswoman. She doesn’t have carte blanche to say whatever she wants anywhere else.

      And since she sent out his nudes in a mailer, he can sue

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        I’m not sure she had immunity here. Did she have a lawful right to obtain those pictures or to release them in a public hearing? Probably not.

        Further, I’m pretty certain this didn’t fall under legitimate legislative purposes.

        She may be personally interest in hunter’s giant cock, but it’s difficult to imagine a legitimate governmental interest- especially since he’s a private citizen not employed by the government. Him doing a porn shoot or having a dick are irrelevant to an irs investigation.

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            Yeah. Probably. I mean, maybe not for this. but generally you can try and sue people for anything. You do have to demonstrate harm- and that’s a very specific legal context. if you can find a lawyer willing to sue for it, it’s fair game. that said, it would be extremely difficult for the average american to show she harmed them sufficiently to justify a civil lawsuit.

            in other words, you’d probably loose.

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        Unfortunately, she does have carte blanche, implicitly, when nobody has the guts to stand up for justice and charge her for the crime.

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      How else would we see the presidents sons penis? This is America! It used to be tradition to show your tax return. Now they will just show their sons penises.