A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by former Rep. Devin Nunes against MSNBC news host Rachel Maddow in 2021, The Hill reported Monday.

U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel ruled that Nunes, a California Republican and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, failed to prove Maddow and her colleagues at the network acted with malice while talking about a package Nunes received addressed to him from Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian legislator with connections to Russian officials and intelligence services, while Nunes was the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.

Castel wrote that “the court concludes that no reasonable jury could find that NBCUniversal [which owns MSNBC] made the statement with constitutionall defined actual malice.”

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