An attorney for Republican congressman Devin Nunes on Tuesday urged a federal judge to keep a defamation suit against the Washington Post alive, alleging the paper acted with vengeance toward his client over an article published last year.

Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, last year sued the Post and its reporter Ellen Nakashima over an article about then-NSA general counsel Michael Ellis that referenced Nunes. The suit took issue with statements about Nunes’ belief about Obama administration officials wiretapping Trump Tower in 2016, which was later corrected, and a so-called midnight run to the Trump White House in 2017, in which Nunes reportedly viewed intelligence filings. The complaint was originally filed in Virginia but a federal judge ordered it transferred to D.C.

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