The President has a long history of using rhetoric that dehumanizes and disrespects people, esp. women, people of color, and LGBTQ people.
His racist tweets about my colleagues, who are duly elected members of Congress, are no exception. Today, I voted to condemn these remarks.
— Rep. Sharice Davids (@RepDavids) July 16, 2019
And most of the country should appreciate that Representatives Davids & Haaland didn’t tell the rest of us to go back where we came from. https://t.co/cOZmKcGfIz
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 16, 2019
Also:
Judge: Neo-Nazi blogger owes Whitefish woman $14M https://t.co/79BJvGH0F7 via @missoulian
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) July 15, 2019
… U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch issued his decision on Monday, finding Andrew Anglin owes Tanya Gersh $10 million in punitive damages along with $4,042,438 in compensatory damages.
The ruling comes after a daylong hearing Thursday in which Gersh, her husband, and her therapist testified to the emotional damage caused after Anglin called on his followers on the Daily Stormer to “storm” Gersh’s family.
Anglin accused Gersh of trying to force the mother of white nationalist Richard Spencer to sell her building in Whitefish and posted personal information on Gersh, her husband, and their son online. A barrage of threats and anti-Semitic messages followed.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, representing Gersh, filed a lawsuit in federal court against Anglin in early 2017. In a statement released by the SPLC on Monday, Gersh said justice has been served…
Anglin was not present at the July 11 hearing, nor was any attorney there to represent him. He forfeited his defense in April after repeatedly refusing a judge’s order to appear in the United States for a deposition, and his attorneys subsequently asked to withdraw from the case.
“This victory is every bit as important as it would be if Andrew Anglin had showed up for trial,” said John Morrison, a Helena attorney also representing Gersh. “It’s also not surprising to me that somebody like Andrew Anglin who commits these acts of cowardice is afraid to actually show up and defend his position.”…
Anglin’s whereabouts remain unclear. David Dinelli, the attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, told the Missoulian in a phone interview Monday that his organization will move forward with collecting the damages recommended in Lynch’s findings.
“We are committed to doing whatever we can to collect whatever Andrew Anglin has that is subject to collection here in the United States, whether that’s cash, assets or intellectual property,” he said, declining to comment further on the potential methods for collection.
“The bigger message is that Tanya Gersh, a real estate agent in small-town Montana, was able to take on the web’s most notorious neo-Nazi and win,” he added.
“Andrew Anglin may stay out of the United States, and we hope that he does. … We’re confident and pleased that the judge’s ruling today will send a message to all those people that if they try (to do the same) they will be held accountable.”
Chief Judge for the District of Montana Dana Christensen will take Lynch’s findings into account and make the final ruling.
I can only apologize to whichever country sad little coward Anglin has self-exiled himself.
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