MAGA lawmaker accused of 'siccing law enforcement' on people trying to serve him lawsuit
An attorney in a legal case against Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) posted on X that the congressman has been attempting to send law enforcement after the people who are tasked with serving him papers in a First Amendment lawsuit.
"Since Congresman Randy Fine has been evading service and siccing law enforcement on process servers, clearly believing himself to be above the law, we’ve moved for alternative service on the Florida Secretary of State, as permitted by Florida law," wrote Jenin Younes of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
The lawsuit in question was brought by AI entrepreneur Amjad Masad, and represented by the ADC, stemming from an incident on social media that ended with Fine blocking Masad, which the suit alleges is viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.
The controversy started when Fine, an avowed Islamophobe who has previously said Gaza should be nuked, had misinterpreted a satirical post by Palestinian-American activist Nerdeen Kiswani, who had jokingly claimed, "NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets." Kiswani had been making a tongue-in-cheek point about a local sanitation issue — but Fine appeared to believe there was an actual Islamic plot to ban dogs, and introduced legislation called the "Protecting Puppies From Sharia Act."
Masad then made fun of Fine's proclamation on X that, “If they force us to choose the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,” by replying, “Are you talking about what’s for lunch?” Shortly after this, Fine blocked his account.
A number of federal courts have previously found that politicians are constitutionally prohibited from blocking people over their political viewpoints. President Donald Trump was hit with similar lawsuits in his first term, with courts usually siding against his right to block people he disagreed with on X, at the time known as Twitter.
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