Sidney Powell is using Fulton County case to seek delay in Dominion lawsuit

Pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell is still facing a defamation lawsuit from the elections equipment company Dominion Voting Systems. But in a new filing this week, Powell is asking that a deposition in that trial be put on hold — so that she can mount a defense in the criminal Georgia election racketeering case.

"To avoid being placed in what courts recognize as the 'significant dilemma' of having to respond to discovery and/or appear for a deposition, thereby implicating her rights under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, Ms. Powell requests a 60-day stay of all written discovery against her and Sidney Powell, P.C., which Ms. Powell operates as a sole partner," said the filing.

"In addition, Ms. Powell has demonstrated 'good cause' for entry of a protective order requiring that Ms. Powell and her law firm not have to respond to pending discovery demands," said the filing.

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Powell, who became known as the "kraken" by Trump allies and is one of 18 co-defendants in the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis against the former president, allegedly wanted to be named special counsel to investigate election fraud nationwide in the days after the 2020 presidential election. Trump ultimately did not go through with the plan; however, she was also allegedly involved in the illegal breach of voting equipment in Coffee County, although she denies this.

While she was strategizing this, she also made the rounds on right-wing media claiming without any evidence that Dominion had manipulated votes in key states. Among her claimed sources for this was a woman who claimed to have witnessed Dominion's election-rigging through the use of "time travel."

Fox News, which aired some of these claims, has already settled a suit brought against them by Dominion for close to $800 million.

Read the filing here.