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Sam Levine in New York

Georgia election workers ask judge to hold Rudy Giuliani in contempt

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Rudy Giuliani in court in New York earlier this month. Photograph: Kena Betancur/Reuters

Rudy Giuliani should be held in civil contempt for continuing to lie about two election workers to whom he already owes $148m for defaming, lawyers for the two women wrote in a court filing on Wednesday.

The request comes months after Giuliani agreed in court to never again accuse Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss of election fraud. Despite that agreement earlier this year, Giuliani continued to spread lies about them on his live-streamed show.

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