Posted on 01/10/2025 3:03:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A federal judge on Friday found Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt of court for continuing to make false claims about two Georgia election workers after being ordered to pay them $148 million in a defamation case, hinting Giuliani could face jail time if he does not stop.
U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington, D.C., on Friday blasted the former New York mayor and Trump attorney for continuing to falsely claim that former Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss manipulated the 2020 vote count in Atlanta. A jury found in December 2023 that he had defamed the women, and he agreed in a consent order with the court in May to stop repeating the claims.
“Mr. Giuliani, you’re the most famous person in this courtroom right now. You’ve got a bigger audience, you’ve got a bigger public following than anyone in this courtroom, you’ve got a respected public service history,” Howell told him during a three-hour court hearing. “I really hoped [you] would stop saying such fabricated lies, at least publicly.”
Howell gave Giuliani a chance to avoid punishment and purge her contempt finding if, by Jan. 20, he “acknowledges and affirms” that his allegations against the women are contradicted by the sworn evidence in his trial and Georgia’s state police investigation, and reaches an agreement to pay their attorney fees for bringing the contempt action.
If he does not do so within 10 days, Howell said, he will be fined $200 per day. And she warned that given his history of not paying the judgment or attorney fees for refusing to cooperate in the litigation, she would consider the workers’ demand for a $20,000-per-day fine — or even jail time.
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Just ast sum of those 20 million votes that was counted fo bidin an then disapeared to splain it.
I wonder if da Judge is going to get a percentage of this haul the ghettopotumuses are going to get. I don’t see where those two maggots need 148 million and a ton of Yankee souvenirs because their feelings got hurt.
Amen!
As one of the glorious "features" of our legal system, Judges can't be held accountable for their evil acts.
This is another thing that needs to be changed. The unaccountability (I think they call it "judicial immunity) for judges renders them as petty tyrants who can flaunt truth or the law as they personally desire.
I see it as a leftover of the old monarchist system our legal system derived from.
I personally think a lot of judges need to be dragged off their bench and beaten in the streets. There are way too many pompous arrogant judges, and no correction system for them.
“Rudy Giuliani is very much like Donald Trump. Both men could have rested on their considerable laurels, and enjoyed a comfortable retirement. But instead they tried to make America a better place.”
I sincerely hope you’re right and it’s on Trumps to-do list.
As you said “He deserves it.”
What was the defamation and slander? Did these election workers undertake some kind of fraud, or did they not?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
They did. The only defamation was by this judge, against Giuliani.
Just like the only defamation ewas by e Jean carrol, against Trump.
Who are we to believe?
Our own eyes?
Or a Mother Daughter team of DIE vote counters working overtime for free?
She's in prison for a State crime for 9 years. She will not be pardoned.
I would not hold my breath. I wanted to see the members of the Clinton Crime Cartel face justice for their deeds. I have since given up on that. The only Justice they will face will be from Almighty God. Meanwhile the blood of their victims cries out from the ground.
bookmark.
Judges are exempt from such suits. They can be reported for misbehavior, impeached and removed if applicable where they are, and not re-elected but that is about it. None of that will happen to her currently.
A great public servant bring crucified by the commies right before our eyes?
True Justice is coming to replace the Deep States “JUST US”.
Sounds like they doing to him what they did to Tommy Robinson by threatening to jail him for contempt.
I haven’t kept up on all the details, but didn’t she claim she wasn’t allowed a defense? Seems to ne that if Merchan can sentence Trump for a federa crime in his state court, the feds ought to use that precedent to try the CO crooks for federal crimes committed in their state trial.
If a state trial violates 14th amendment due process it is ripe for a federal suit/intervention
“... contradicted by the sworn evidence in his trial ... “
Well that makes it the truth then. No one has ever lied at trial.
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