Subversive Literature Act of 2009

[robkelk]

One first bills of the 111th United States Congress,

One of the first bills of the 111th United States Congress,

== Suit Against OLC and Jaye Creed ==

In 2011, after her departure from the House, Happery sued Jaye Creed for defamation, claiming that the OLC attorney had in fact dramatically rewritten her original text for the Act as a deliberate act of sabotage. The lawsuit was withdrawn when Newsome (who had had a falling out with Happery toward the end of her tenure as a Representative), produced a handwritten first draft of Act which other than for spelling and grammar corrections was all but identical to the final version introduced to the House. The draft was signed and dated by Happery on January 3, 2009. Happery claimed it was a forgery, but handwriting experts testified that it was in her hand, and Newsome was able to provide the document's provenance, including full chain-of-custody evidence reaching back into Happery's own archives.

Jaye Creed also produced copies of the email chains related to the proposed legislation, which included the "a glorified proofreader and nothing more" quote. These had been backed up with "legal hold" software (preserving their admissibility in Federal court) - which Ms. Happery represented as both proof that anything related to computers was a potential "terrorist" threat and yet another part of the conspiracy against her.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012