Sounds like TX has a law like CA's Anti-SLAPP law. These laws are supposedly intended to protect free speech by creating a legal cause of action against someone who sues you for exercising your first amendment rights, but I've been seen multiple instances now where they have been weaponized against the actual victims.
Defamation lawsuits have been a concept in our jurisprudence since before we were even a country. Anyone who's accused of defamation should have to first win that case before they can counter sue on Anti-SLAPP grounds.
Write the perfect, most just laws and they will find a way to only apply them to political enemies. Law doesn't matter as much at this point as who is in charge does.
Sounds like TX has a law like CA's Anti-SLAPP law. These laws are supposedly intended to protect free speech by creating a legal cause of action against someone who sues you for exercising your first amendment rights, but I've been seen multiple instances now where they have been weaponized against the actual victims.
Defamation lawsuits have been a concept in our jurisprudence since before we were even a country. Anyone who's accused of defamation should have to first win that case before they can counter sue on Anti-SLAPP grounds.
Write the perfect, most just laws and they will find a way to only apply them to political enemies. Law doesn't matter as much at this point as who is in charge does.