U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell described Giuliani as “a current media personality and former politician once dubbed ‘America’s mayor’” and called him a key figure in promoting false election fraud claims. | Mary Altaffer/AP Photo
By Kyle Cheney
11/01/2022 12:07 PM EDT
A federal judge has rejected Rudy Giuliani’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit brought by two Georgia election workers who he falsely accused of election fraud — stoking a furor that led to threats and harassment against both women.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell ruled in a 27-page opinion that the case brought by both the mother-daughter duo — Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss — was enough to justify advancing their lawsuit against Giuliani and presented “ample circumstantial evidence of a civil conspiracy between Giuliani and members of the Trump Campaign.”
Howell described Giuliani as “a current media personality and former politician once dubbed ‘America’s mayor’” and called him a key figure in promoting false election fraud claims.
Moss and Freeman were repeatedly accused by Donald Trump, Giuliani and their allies of election fraud, citing surveillance video inside an Atlanta vote tabulation center that they claimed showed the women moving suitcases full of illegal ballots. But the allegations were repeatedly and conclusively debunked by Georgia and federal investigators, who found the women were performing routine election-related functions that were not indicative of fraud at all.
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