All posts tagged "Ruby Freeman"

A federal judge has found former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt for discovery violations.

Trump-appointee Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled Monday that Giuliani failed to properly respond to requests for information in the discovery phase of his $148 million defamation judgment in favor of two Georgia election workers.

Giuliani was permitted to testify remotely from his $3.5 million Palm Beach condominium Monday. ...

The $148 million ruling against Rudy Giuliani could have failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake “shaking in her boots,” according to a new analysis from MSNBC.

The ruling against Giuliani, and in favor of two Georgia poll workers he falsely accused of interfering in the 2020 election, came days before an Arizona Superior Court judge ruled a similar defamation lawsuit against Lake could go ahead.

The timing is important, argue MSNBC analysts Steve Benen and Alex Wagner....

MAGA Republicans on Friday decried the $148 million victory for two Georgia poll workers who found themselves at the mercy of an angry mob of right-wing trolls when Rudy Giuliani falsely accused them of election interference.

Far-righters such as Stephen Miller professed themselves outraged that Giuliani — who claimed a ginger mint was a USB drive full of fake votes funneled into Georgia's 2020 presidential election by mother and daughter Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss — had been found liable for damages.

"Madness!" Miller wrote on X Friday night. "While conservatives believe in objectivity, fairness, impartiality, and the rule of law, the left believes in vengeance and in the punishment and degradation of political enemies."...

On the heels of her massive courtroom victory against Rudy Giuliani, Ruby Freeman said Friday she was not done seeking justice against those who defamed her work as a Georgia poll worker in 2020.

“Today is not the end of the of the road, we still have work to do,” Freeman told the horde of reporters who gathered to hear her statement.

“Rudy Giuliani was not the only one who spread lies about us. Others must be held accountable.” ...

Rudy Giuliani could be in for a tough ride after two of the eight jurors in the defamation case he's fighting were seen crying as the plaintiff recounted being targeted, defamed, and subsequently attacked.

Specifically, when Ruby Freeman was telling the court that she could no longer use her real name, two women in the juror box were seen getting emotional, according to Andrew Rice of New York Magazine.

Rice, speaking on CNN's Laura Coates Live Thursday evening, said for the most part, the jurors were behaving "as jurors are supposed to: they didn't betray a lot of emotion." ...

Former Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman lashed out at Donald Trump on Wednesday in a defamation trial against Rudy Giuliani.

On the third day of Giuliani's trial, Freeman took the stand to testify to the harassment she received after the former New York mayor made her — and her daughter, Shaye Moss — the focus of a campaign to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Following the 2020 election, Giuliani claimed Freeman and Moss had conspired to rig the vote....