This goes beyond a typical feud.
Mike Lindell says his streaming service, Lindell-TV, will sue Speaker Kevin McCarthy over his decision to give footage from the Jan. 6 riot exclusively to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Lindell told Steve Bannon on Thursday that McCarthy’s decision to share the 41,000 hours of recordings with Carlson violates the First Amendment’s freedom of the press provision and the Equal Protection Clause under the 14th Amendment.
“Why does just Fox get this? So they can cover it up even more? It’s disgusting,” Lindell fumed on Bannon’s “War Room” podcast.
“We’re gonna run this all the way to the Supreme Court,” Lindell added.
However, experts say his lawsuit will have no legal merit.
As Newsweek explains:
Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Newsweek on Friday that Lindell’s suit will likely be dismissed because he “lacks standing” to raise his claims.
Although Lindell is arguing that his network was “injured” by not having access to the tapes, Rahmani said McCarthy, who represents the State, has not deprived Lindell of his privileges as an American citizen by choosing to only release the footage to Carlson.
“The Fourteenth Amendment prevents the government from discriminating based on protected characteristics. But it doesn’t prohibit it from favoring one individual like Tucker Carlson,” Rahmani explained.
Under the Constitution, the state cannot deny any U.S. citizen from the equal protection of law—a clause typically used to address discrimination on the basis of race, sex, origin, age, religion or disability.
An assistant law professor at the University of Wisconsin told Newsweek that owning a streaming service does not place Lindell into one of these protected classes under the Equal Protection Clause.
McCarthy has also said he would make the tapes more widely available after Carlson is done with them.
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why? this sort of infighting is pointless and damaging. study up on reagan’s 11th. nuts.
Just shows you what a jerk lindell really is. Never liked the man and definitely did NOT like his products!
Gee, Mike. You’re usually on target, but getting angry over an exclusive is simply immature and in poor taste. You should be celebrating the fact that the truth is finally coming out