Two state courts in Virginia handed Republican California Congressman Devin Nunes two losses in his quest to bring SLAP lawsuits against anyone on Twitter who offends or mocks him, the Fresno Bee reports.

Virginia Circuit Court Judge John Marshall dismissed a $250 million complaint Nunes filed against former Republican strategist Liz Mair in which Nunes claimed Mair defamed him and was part of a conspiracy to undermine him.  Marshall ruled that Nunes did not establish that Mair defamed him, saying that Nunes had failed to provide the court with a specific, defamatory statement from Mair.  Nunes also sued Twitter and two anonymous Twitter accounts–known as “Devin Nunes’ cow,” @DevinCow, and “Devin Nunes’ Alt-Mom,” @NunesAlt–in that lawsuit.

Earlier, Judge Claude V. Worrell Jr. of Albemarle County in Virginia shot down another $150 million lawsuit Nunes filed against Mair; in that one, he also sued McClatchy News.  Nunes dropped McClatchy from the suit after the company filed for bankruptcy in 2020.  Nunes sued over a published report about a lawsuit an employee filed against Alpha Omega Winery, a California vintner in which Nunes is a limited partner.

Nunes has filed no fewer than ten defamation cases since 2019, many of which have been dismissed, but which Nunes continues to appeal in courts.  Among those sued by Nunes:  MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Hearst Magazines and CNN.