Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani lost his defamation case filed by two Georgia election workers, adding to a growing pile of legal problems.

A federal judge sanctioned the former New York City mayor for failing to turn over evidence to the women's attorneys for discovery and ordered him to pay their legal fees in a scathing judgment, and NBC News correspondent Ken Dilanian explained to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what provoked her anger.

A legal expert on Wednesday said former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani faces a “financially ruinous” hit after a federal judge found the former New York City mayor liable in a defamation lawsuit filed by two election workers who claimed he falsely accused them of fraud.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Wednesday’s ruling ordered Giuliani to pay $89,172.50 in attorney fees to Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea' ArShaye ("Shaye") Moss by Sept. 20.

A federal judge's finding that Rudy Giuliani defamed two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of fraud was accompanied by a scathing order.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell entered a default judgment against the former Donald Trump campaign lawyer – which means he didn't answer the charges against him or didn't attend hearings – and ordered him to pay more than $130,000 in attorneys' fees. She faulted Giuliani for stalling or outright refusing to turn over evidence to the plaintiffs' attorneys for discovery as required by law.

Warning of possible violence and "civil war," an allegation of "Nazism," and calling to pass laws and hold hearings, Republican lawmakers at the state and federal level are working to delegitimize, derail, discipline, or defund Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her prosecution of Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants. Some legal experts are calling it "dangerous," and "a recipe for constitutional crisis."

“Do you want a civil war? I don't want a civil war. I don't want to have to draw my rifle," Georgia Republican state Senator Colton Moore told Steve Bannon, as Raw Story reported (video below). "I want to make this problem go away with my legislative means of doing so, and the first step to getting that done is defunding Fani Willis of any Georgia tax dollars."

Two Georgia election workers Rudy Giuliani allegedly defamed have won their case against him.

Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye" Moss sued Giuliani for defamation and false statements following the 2020 presidential election.

One of the findings detailed in the House Select Committee on the 2020 election and Jan. 6 was that Donald Trump was getting a lot of legal advice that his ideas wouldn't work. Further, he was being told that the outlandish plots from the likes of Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman wouldn't work. But it was as if Trump allies were searching for lawyers who were willing to support legally unsound ideas to overthrow the election, according to reports.

Rolling Stone reported Tuesday that among the threads of investigation, special counsel Jack Smith's team is pulling is the degree to which Giuliani was drunk while giving legal advice to Trump. Further, it explained, did Donald Trump and his allies know that Giuliani was drunk when he took his advice?

Many witnesses who spoke with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots have indicated that former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was repeatedly inebriated in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.

Now sources are telling Rolling Stone that special counsel Jack Smith may use these alleged instances of inebriation to undermine a key defense that former President Donald Trump is expected to make during his trial: Namely, that his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election were merely the result of him following the best advice of his attorneys.

Donald Trump will likely argue that he sincerely believed that he won the 2020 election to justify his efforts to overturn the results, but legal experts warn that defense is risky and ineffective.

Special counsel Jack Smith's team used the phrase "knowingly false" dozens of times to describe Trump's election fraud claims, and the indictment lists more than 100 alleged falsehoods made by the former president -- who doesn't have to prove he believed those statements, but has signaled he would try, wrote legal expert Steven Lubet in a new column for CNN.

The recent defense from fake electors in Georgia is that they were merely acting on Donald Trump's orders. It's a claim that is terrible for his defense.

Speaking on Brian Tyler Cohen's "Legal Breakdown," former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner agreed that this is a preview of the defense of the fake electors.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani griped about the availability of lawyers after he reportedly struggled to find one to represent him in Georgia.

During his Sunday radio program on WABC, Giuliani's co-host Maria Ryan asked Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) if it was legal for Fulton County to release mugshots of Giuliani, former president Donald Trump, and 17 others.