ATLANTA — A federal judge has rejected Rudy Giuliani’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by two Fulton County election workers who say their lives were upended by false claims of voting fraud.
Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss, filed the lawsuit last year, accusing Giuliani and others of defamation by spreading false allegations about them based on video from ballot counting at State Farm Arena on election night in 2020.
Giuliani, who was then-President Donald Trump’s attorney, called the video a “smoking gun” for voting fraud. The allegation was investigated and rejected by the FBI, the U.S. attorney’s office in Atlanta and the Georgia secretary of state’s office.
