ANALYSIS
Disclosure: I am the respondent in Rep. Boebert’s protection order case in Weld County. My attorneys are contesting it with a anti-SLAPP motion.
At Thursday’s hearing in Weld County, Judge Dana Nichols made clear early on that the day was not going to be a hearing on the evidence. That didn’t stop Scott Gessler, Rep. Lauren Boebert’s attorney. He kept coming back to one theme: my posts about his client. He read them aloud. He called them nasty. He suggested they were evidence that she needs protection from me.
I’ll own my posts. Some are harsh. I’ve called her a liar, a hypocrite, whore, and worse, and I stand behind the commentary or rude comments under every one. All of it is political speech about a sitting member of Congress, which is the most protected speech there is under the First Amendment.
But if crude, mocking, or insulting posts about political opponents are the standard, it’s worth looking at the congresswoman’s own record. Not because her posts are illegal. They are…
