Rudy Giuliani faces contempt bid as he's caught 'attacking' judge in his defamation case

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are asking the court to step in after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani continued making false claims about them in his latest podcast.

Politico legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney posted a link to a Wednesday court filing that requests Giuliani come back to court in Washington, D.C. to be delivered consequences for alleged continuing defamation.

"In his latest act of defiance of court orders and continued defamation of Plaintiffs, Defendant Rudolph W. Giuliani has clearly violated a permanent injunction—an injunction to which he consented to less than one year ago—prohibiting him from repeating his false and defamatory lies about Plaintiffs. Accordingly, the Court should hold him in contempt and enter civil contempt sanctions," the filing begins.

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Giuliani also attacked Judge Beryl Howell, who presided over his case, during a recent episode of his podcast. He alleged she was "bloodthirsty" to sentence the Jan. 6 defendants being charged with the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

He claimed that it was one of the reasons that he couldn't get a fair trial.

"Now if you wanted me to make out a check to pay my bills, I can't do it because of judge um [off screen voice: Liman] Judge Liman and and the Biden uh the Biden people who are behind the case of the two women," Giuliani said, according to the transcript.

"You didn't have $145 million in damages. In fact there's, there's video of you doing what I said," he continued. "We can play it for you if you want. You framed me. You had a judge whose a bloodthirsty uh uh um January 6 sentencer, the biggest January 6 sentencer who told the other judges they weren't giving strong enough sentences. She figured out a way to manipulate it so I never got a trial on liability, I never got a trial on damages."

Giuliani served among the lawyers working for Donald Trump to try and overthrow the 2020 election. He lost his defamation case brought by Moss and Freeman after repeatedly claiming that they were involved in a conspiracy to steal the election. He was ordered to pay them $145 million in damages and has since filed for bankruptcy.

Read the full filing here.