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Jaclyn Diaz

Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming 2 Georgia election workers, a judge says

Rudy Giuliani speaks outside the Fulton County jail in Atlanta on Aug. 23, before he surrendered on 13 felony charges related to efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election. (Brynn Anderson/AP)

Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming two Georgia election workers by repeatedly claiming the women were manipulating 2020 ballots, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, a nominee of former President Barack Obama, issued a "default judgment" against Giuliani, writing in an opinion Wednesday that he "has refused to comply with his discovery obligations and thwarted plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ['Shaye'] Moss's procedural rights to obtain any meaningful discovery in this case."

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