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Ex-Trump lawyer Powell asks judge to toss voting machine company's $1.3 billion lawsuit
Reuters ^ | March 22, 2021 | Jan Wolfe

Posted on 03/22/2021 3:42:05 PM PDT by Coronal

Sidney Powell, a lawyer who advised President Donald Trump’s campaign, asked a judge on Monday to throw out a $1.3 billion lawsuit accusing her of spreading false conspiracy theories about the November presidential election.

Powell said in a filing in federal court in Washington that there was a “no basis” for the lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems Inc in January.

Powell, represented by three lawyers, argued that claims she made about Denver-based Dominion were protected by the right to free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

She said her claims about Dominion were meant to be hyperbolic, and that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process.”

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dominion; dominionlawsuit; electionfraud2020; kraken; leopardprint; qtards; sideshow; sidneypowell; trusttheplan; wwewrestling
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To: Jane Long

Yes, they should sue her.

She attacked them with zero proof and some sort of Kraken that never materialized while I had to listen to Qtards for months talk about how the Kraken was some sort of Top Military Intelligence Spy program

It and Sydney Powell was total 100% bullturds

Sorry, she distracted the weak minded while Biden stole the election with fraud and sanitized ballots.

Democrat states magically changed election laws that would benefit Biden and themselves in the name of covid.

Sydney covered for them, hope she got a good pay day from the dems


21 posted on 03/22/2021 3:57:41 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Coronal

Down here in Georgia, we have a higher opinion of Lin.


22 posted on 03/22/2021 3:59:24 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Coronal
Re: "Reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process."

I like that sentence.

Almost makes paying for a lawyer worth the money.

So, does this mean she was full of baloney the whole time?

If yes - the most tragic element of this story is that Donald Trump thought people like Powell, Lin Wood, and the geriatric Rudy, could defend our former Republic from Democratic Party voter fraud.

23 posted on 03/22/2021 4:00:29 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: caww

That’s right.


24 posted on 03/22/2021 4:00:51 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Jane Long

> She says that when she accused Dominion of being part of an election-rigging scheme with ties to Venezuela, “no reasonable person would conclude” those “were truly statements of fact”


25 posted on 03/22/2021 4:01:35 PM PDT by mooncoin
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To: Guenevere

:-)


26 posted on 03/22/2021 4:01:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Coronal
I'm sure that this is not a fair or accurate summation of the argument's that Powell's lawyers made in their motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim against her. I believe that what was written is that Dominion is "public figure" because its machines and software count ballots in elections, and under the precedent of New York Times v. Sullivan "actual malice" must be proved before it can prevail in any defamation lawsuit, i.e., that Powell either knew her claims were false, or made them with reckless disregard for the truth. Unless the judge is corrupt, or being blackmailed, Dominion can't win on this point. Having seen so much corruption in this election, I rule nothing out. Nothing absurd will surprise me at this point.
27 posted on 03/22/2021 4:02:34 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Whether or not anything else was “bulltards”, the issue you cite about the governors changing the law was a known fact. So you’re absolutely right about the fact that it would’ve been much better to pursue a challenge based on known facts that are on your side than to go down the “rabbit hole” of the unknown.


28 posted on 03/22/2021 4:03:18 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: Coronal

“She said her claims about Dominion were meant to be hyperbolic, and that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process.””

LOL


29 posted on 03/22/2021 4:04:48 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Coronal

If her claims are valid then she should eagerly allow the lawsuit to go forth. Mike Lindell said he welcomed the threatened lawsuit against him


30 posted on 03/22/2021 4:04:51 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

We will have to agree to disagree.

What court EVER offered to hear any evidence that she, or ANY of the Trump election lawyers wanted to present?

The left/courts keep saying “No evidence has been found!” and “No standing!”

But, I am not aware of any court that has allowed any election fraud evidence to be presented.

Your siding with El Reuters, on this, is interesting, though.


31 posted on 03/22/2021 4:05:09 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: zeestephen
If yes - the most tragic element of this story is that Donald Trump thought people like Powell, Lin Wood, and the geriatric Rudy, could defend our former Republic from Democratic Party voter fraud."

Only Trump himself can answer that question. Yet I sense Trump knew he would not get a second term and reveled in being a disruptor. Trump, if anything, is a master showman.

32 posted on 03/22/2021 4:10:03 PM PDT by buckalfa (I have forgotten more than I ever knew.)
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To: Coronal

She is very close to one of the more renown defamation lawyers in the country. Is this his advice? I would have hoped Sidney was keeping very close to sustainable facts all these months. People donated money for her efforts.


33 posted on 03/22/2021 4:12:09 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Disprove it.

There was the Antrim[sp?] County, MI miscount.

There was some big data review of anomalous precinct by precinct results. A near total blockade of investigations. It’s tough to prove something if data acquisition is precluded.

The ‘Rats pulled out all of the stops. Many of the guilty Counties have had decades of practice in all sorts of shenanigans. I could easily be that vote counting machines are that least of it, but there is still stong hints of Dominion machines used to cheat. Likely in a number of ways.


34 posted on 03/22/2021 4:14:51 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: buckalfa

Yet I sense Trump knew he would not get a second term....


Because of the fraud/attemps at left stealing election?


35 posted on 03/22/2021 4:17:41 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Coronal

Throw the book at this liar. She made the president look like a fool and sucked all the oxygen out of the room.

Really, throw her jail.


36 posted on 03/22/2021 4:23:34 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: lakecumberlandvet
If her claims are valid then she should eagerly allow the lawsuit to go forth. Mike Lindell said he welcomed the threatened lawsuit against him

She would prefer to make the claim for a plaintiff, than herself as the defendant. She is represented by lawyers. It would be malpractice on their part to not make the motion to dismiss. The longer the case goes on, the more expensive it is. For the lawyers to not make the motion to dismiss would be like a doctor conducting surgery for something that can be cured with a few aspirin. It's overkill and doesn't serve the clients interests. That doesn't mean Powell can't prove her case against Dominion in court.
37 posted on 03/22/2021 4:24:31 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Trump.Deplorable
We lost the election because our side hates facts as much as the other side.

We didn't lose the election. Corrupt Democrat officials manufactured ballots in several swing states. Trump received more votes than any president in history, and if you think we are going to believe Biden won 12 million more votes than Obama, you aren't rational.

38 posted on 03/22/2021 4:24:44 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Trump.Deplorable
The dems sanitized them to make sure theirs counted and ours got ‘missing’ Post office declaring their support for Biden Main in ballots going for Biden 2 week counts that usually took an evening to do That was the steal, not the counting machines.

Yes, the mail in ballot thing was a large if not the biggest part of the fraud, but I think there has been sufficient evidence shown to believe the machines were also rigged in various counties.

39 posted on 03/22/2021 4:26:48 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: RoosterRedux

Looney Tunes Lin is a major reason you also have 2 Democrat Senators now.


40 posted on 03/22/2021 4:29:03 PM PDT by ready2brd
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