Election workers seek to hold Rudy Giuliani in contempt for continued defamatory comments

The two former Georgia election workers who won an almost $150 million defamation judgment against former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani want him held in civil contempt for continuing to falsely accuse them of having committed election fraud in the 2020 election.

In papers filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., attorneys for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss say Giuliani has continued to make false claims about them online despite a court-approved deal in May in which he "agreed to be bound by a permanent injunction prohibiting him from repeating the same or similar statements to the statements adjudged to be false and defamatory."

"It took only six months for Mr. Giuliani to resume his defamatory campaign" against the mother and daughter, the filing said, including making false claims about them on his livestreamed "America's Mayor Live" show this month. Among his comments were that they "quadruple"-counted votes and used "hard drives" to "fix the machines," according to the filing.

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