Minority Leader Representative Devin Nunes, R-California, departs after questioning witnesses Jennifer Williams, special adviser for Europe and Russia with the office of the vice president, and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, during a House Intelligence Committee Impeachment Inquiry hearing into President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on Nov. 19, 2019. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM.
Congressman Devin Nunes’ lawsuit against Hearst Magazine Media and one of its journalists can move forward, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Wednesday, pointing to a tweet the journalist made after the complaint had been served as basis for reviving the litigation.
Nunes, R-California, sued the media company in 2019 over an article written by reporter Ryan Lizza for then Hearst-owned Esquire magazine about the Nunes family’s dairy farm in Sibley, Iowa. Nunes claimed the article, titled “Devin Nunes’s Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret,” falsely implied that he and his family kept his relatives’ move from California to Iowa in 2006 a secret, and hid the farm’s use of undocumented labor.
