Another election denier judge taken off of a case

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A judge barred an indicted, election-denying lawyer from being involved in one of Dominion Voting Systems’ 2020 election defamation cases after she publicly leaked the company’s internal emails.

The lawyer, Stefanie Lambert, had represented former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in the lawsuit, which Dominion filed because he has repeatedly accused the voting technology company, falsely, of rigging the 2020 election against former President Donald Trump.

Federal Judge Moxila Upadhyaya said Tuesday in a searing 62-page ruling that she was removing Lambert from the case because of her “truly egregious misconduct,” concluding that she “flagrantly and repeatedly disregarded court orders” by publicly disclosing “thousands, if not millions” of internal Dominion documents without any legal justification.


“Lambert’s actions were intentional and clearly meant to inflict the harm that has resulted,” Upadhyaya wrote, adding that “this Court cannot allow such intentional, dangerous, and relentless misconduct to continue.”

Byrne and Lambert are part of a coterie of Trump supporters who tried to overturn the 2020 results and are still peddling debunked claims that Dominion software manipulated the outcome. Separate from the Dominion litigation, Lambert is facing criminal charges in Michigan over her alleged role in a conspiracy to seize voting machines in 2020 in hopes of proving her voter fraud theories. (She pleaded not guilty.)

The decision to disqualify Lambert from the Dominion case comes months after she leaked internal Dominion emails to a right-wing Michigan sheriff who has used his office to investigate baseless theories about the 2020 election. The sheriff, Dar Leaf, subsequently posted many of the documents online – doxing Dominion staffers by publicly disclosing their names, email addresses, and cell phone numbers.

“Byrne and Lambert’s acts have not only fueled theories of widescale election fraud and crime … they have resulted in real harm and threats to Dominion employees,” Upadhyaya wrote in Tuesday’s ruling.

The ruling was yet another rebuke for election deniers like Lambert who have tried to exploit the legal system to delegitimize the 2020 election. Other pro-Trump lawyers have been convicted of state crimes or lost their law license, in addition to the facing defamation suits.

“Lambert’s repeated misconduct raises the serious concern that she became involved in this litigation for the sheer purpose of gaining access to and publicly sharing Dominion’s protected discovery,” Upadhyaya wrote, highlighting “a concerning pattern of conduct” from Lambert in 2020 election-related litigation.
 

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A judge barred an indicted, election-denying lawyer from being involved in one of Dominion Voting Systems’ 2020 election defamation cases after she publicly leaked the company’s internal emails.

The lawyer, Stefanie Lambert, had represented former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in the lawsuit, which Dominion filed because he has repeatedly accused the voting technology company, falsely, of rigging the 2020 election against former President Donald Trump.

Federal Judge Moxila Upadhyaya said Tuesday in a searing 62-page ruling that she was removing Lambert from the case because of her “truly egregious misconduct,” concluding that she “flagrantly and repeatedly disregarded court orders” by publicly disclosing “thousands, if not millions” of internal Dominion documents without any legal justification.


“Lambert’s actions were intentional and clearly meant to inflict the harm that has resulted,” Upadhyaya wrote, adding that “this Court cannot allow such intentional, dangerous, and relentless misconduct to continue.”

Byrne and Lambert are part of a coterie of Trump supporters who tried to overturn the 2020 results and are still peddling debunked claims that Dominion software manipulated the outcome. Separate from the Dominion litigation, Lambert is facing criminal charges in Michigan over her alleged role in a conspiracy to seize voting machines in 2020 in hopes of proving her voter fraud theories. (She pleaded not guilty.)

The decision to disqualify Lambert from the Dominion case comes months after she leaked internal Dominion emails to a right-wing Michigan sheriff who has used his office to investigate baseless theories about the 2020 election. The sheriff, Dar Leaf, subsequently posted many of the documents online – doxing Dominion staffers by publicly disclosing their names, email addresses, and cell phone numbers.

“Byrne and Lambert’s acts have not only fueled theories of widescale election fraud and crime … they have resulted in real harm and threats to Dominion employees,” Upadhyaya wrote in Tuesday’s ruling.

The ruling was yet another rebuke for election deniers like Lambert who have tried to exploit the legal system to delegitimize the 2020 election. Other pro-Trump lawyers have been convicted of state crimes or lost their law license, in addition to the facing defamation suits.

“Lambert’s repeated misconduct raises the serious concern that she became involved in this litigation for the sheer purpose of gaining access to and publicly sharing Dominion’s protected discovery,” Upadhyaya wrote, highlighting “a concerning pattern of conduct” from Lambert in 2020 election-related litigation.
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