A Texas Secessionist Is Suing a Lawmaker for Calling Her Treasonous

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Paul Davis began his speech at the Rally Against Censorship in late January with a joke. Surveying the crowd in Conroe, the boyish 41-year-old Frisco lawyer asked if anyone had “not been censored on social media.” When one audience member raised a hand, Davis deployed his punch line. “Are you a fed?” he asked. That set the tone for a fifteen-minute speech that followed in which he discussed his own bans from and censorship on social media for contesting the 2020 election results and saying the COVID-19 vaccine was killing people. Davis made clear that his life’s cause was opposing the suppression of free speech online. “If you’re not getting censored on social media,” he said, “you’re not speaking truth.”

Three months later, Davis is involved in a lawsuit that accuses state representative Jeff Leach of libeling a Texas secessionist by accusing her of treasonous sedition on Twitter. Given Davis’s absolutist stance on free speech, you would think he would be vigorously defending Leach, a conservative Republican from Plano. You’d be wrong. Davis is instead representing…

A Texas Secessionist Is Suing a Lawmaker for Calling Her Treasonous