Devin Nunes is an entertainment gift who keeps on giving (when he’s not busy trying to figure out which side of the Russian scandal is which). Daily Kos does a great job in its reporting on him but I don’t think I’ve seen this story here.
Apparently, when his family and their eager lawyer sued the reporter Ryan Lizza for implying that they hire undocumented workers, they did not understand the concept of “discovery”, whereby employment records were demanded.
Nunes discovers that there is a thing called discovery.
Tonight at 11 on the Discovery Channel.
Above The Law has the details, in a story titled Nunes Family Sues For Defamation, Shocked To Find That Discovery Comes Before KA-CHING
They have a link to all the court filings, and an excerpt of a redacted document, along with speculation that it may have been redacted due to unusual or shocking behavior by the Nunes family lawyer, Steven Biss:
In an apparent attempt to bollix up depositions of NuStar employees, Biss first asserted that it was illegal to depose them, then claimed to represent the witnesses as employees of the dairy and agreed to accept service of process. At the deposition itself, he decided he did not represent them after all, but then disrupted the proceeding in some fashion so shocking that it is being blacked out of the court filing.
What can I say? It’s a:
Shocking discovery: someone who has held
a leadership position at the body that makes
our actual laws does not seem to understand
the legal concept of “discovery”.