Defamation lawsuit against Murtha

House member argues for immunity from lawsuit - Yahoo! News

I've been very interested to know how this whole thing has been going, and I'm glad I finally got a chance to see something going on about this.

It seems that currently at question is the idea that a congressman can be sued for defamation, considering that he has constitutional protection for his job. The original court ordered that Murtha should give a deposition, but he appealed that based on those grounds. This judge seems to be just as skeptical about the argument, wondering if he would be protected no matter what he said about the war.

Chances are, this is going to go all the way to the Supreme Court and they're going to have to make a decision about how far congressional protection goes.