CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is facing a lawsuit after her speech on the U.S. House floor last month from one of the four men she labeled as “predators.”
The Bland Richter Law Firm is representing Brian Musgrave, one of the four men Mace accused of drug and sex crimes in a lawsuit alleging defamation and multiple instances of libel. Along with Mace, it lists five “Jane/John Does,” which it describes as “persons whose identities are not presently known, but who aided, abetted and/or conspired along with Defendant Mace in the conduct.”
Mace, who represents South Carolina’s First Congressional District, spoke on the U.S. House floor on Feb. 25, and identified four men, including Musgrave, her ex-fiance, Patrick Bryant; and two others, all of whom she identified by name and by photograph, of being “rapists, predators and sex traffickers,” the lawsuit states…