A 23-year-old told Leo—the man who wrote Trump's shortlist for the Supreme Court—that he's “a fucking fascist,” and Leo called the cops.
from that day show that protestors wrote on the roadway in chalk, “free speech dies here” with a red finger pointing to Leo’s house. When Durand-McDonnel arrived at Hancock County jail, he said the booking officer was confused: “That’s all you’re in for? Whatever happened to ‘sticks and stones’?”
The local district attorney dropped the charges earlier this year saying he had more important things to deal with but on Thursday, Durand-McDonnell, the suit accuses two officers of the Mount Desert and Bar Harbor Police Departments of perpetrating a “retaliatory arrest to silence Durand-McDonnell’s free speech” while acting “at the direct behest of Leo.”The lawsuit relies on audio from the arresting officer’s camera that reveals Leo called the police on July 31.
Leo also seemed upset with the tenor of the protestors’ speech, arguing that the words themselves were harassment: “This is no longer a political protest,” he said to the police, “when they have ‘Fuck Leo’ signs...and their Twitter and Facebook posts talk about ‘Get out,’ and ‘You don’t belong here.
The attorney who filed the suit, Matthew Morgan, said that a disorderly-conduct charge under Maine law requires police to witness “fighting words” intended to provoke violence—shouting an expletive from a car on the way to a peaceful protest doesn’t meet the standard. “You have the head of the Federalist Society getting a guy arrested for carrying a sign in front of his house,” MorganLeo added in his emailed statement: “I hope Mr.
Durand-McDonnell says the whole saga thus far is a microcosm of the influence Leo and other conservative activists have on the law and civil rights. “The rules don’t apply to Leonard Leo. He can use this insane amount of money and influence and be a big shot, and throw his weight around. And, if he doesn’t agree with what someone else says, it’s no longer free speech.”
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