COURTS/CYBERWAR/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for critics suing President Donald Trump’s campaign over its alleged involvement in the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails urged a federal judge in Virginia Thursday to reject a bid by the campaign to have the lawsuit thrown out. The Trump campaign met the suit earlier this year with an eyebrow-raising claim: that Trump’s presidential bid had the legal right under the First Amendment to disseminate emails that were stolen by others. However, attorneys pressing the case argued in a new brief filed Thursday that the Trump campaign’s assertions about First Amendment protections are a diversion because its alleged involvement in the hacking and the dissemination of private information about Democratic donors went well beyond anything permitted by law…Trump’s campaign has argued that as long as some part of the DNC emails dumped into the public sphere were newsworthy, publication of the entire raft is protected by the First Amendment, but lawyers for the Trump critics say that’s incorrect.”
–Josh Gerstein, “Trump critics fight bid to dismiss suit over DNC hacking,” Politico, November 8, 2018 12:39 pm