Defamed election workers ask bankruptcy judge to gag Rudy Giuliani over continued attacks

Atlanta poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are asking a federal bankruptcy judge to issue an injunction barring Rudy Giuliani from continuing to make defamatory statements about them, reported Politico's Kyle Cheney on Friday evening.

In the document filed with the court, Freeman and Moss, who have already won a $148 million civil judgment against Giuliani for his repeated claims that they mishandled ballots in Georgia during the 2020 presidential election, argue that the former prosecutor and New York City mayor is continuing to sully their reputations.

"Undeterred by facts, logic, decency, professional discipline, court orders in multiple jurisdictions, a criminal indictment, a multimillion dollar jury verdict, or declaring bankruptcy as a result, Mr. Giuliani has entered year four of intentionally defaming Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss — repeating the very same lies that Plaintiffs engaged in fraud during their service as election workers during the 2020 presidential election," said the filing.

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Among his ongoing offenses, the filing said, is his insistence to reporters after the verdict that everything he said about Freeman and Moss was "true."

"Enough is enough," the filing continued. "Contrary to his delusions of grandeur, the law does apply to Mr. Giuliani, and it is beyond time to make him follow it. As the Supreme Court of the United States held more than fifty years ago, injunctive relief is the appropriate remedy for those, like Mr. Giuliani, who continue to publish speech already held to be unprotected."

Giuliani, who also faces criminal prosecution in Georgia and Arizona for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has reportedly been in a dire financial situation for a long time, even before the judgment against him was decided in the case. He entered bankruptcy proceedings shortly after that decision.

But even that bankruptcy proceeding is throwing up roadblocks for Giuliani, who earlier this month reportedly had his accountant drop him as a client.

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