Sidney Powell, the conservative legal firebrand who helped spearhead President Trump’s court challenges to his 2020 defeat, is seeking to throw out a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against her from the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems.
In a motion submitted in federal district court in D.C. on Monday, Powell argued through her attorneys that the case should be dismissed because it was filed in the wrong jurisdiction and that the claims she made about Dominion were protected under the First Amendment.
Her attorneys argued that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process.”
“All the allegedly defamatory statements attributed to Defendants were made as part of the normal process of litigating issues of momentous significance and immense public interest,” the motion reads.
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Sidney Powell seeks dismissal of Dominion's $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against her https://t.co/O6RXqs8jma pic.twitter.com/qErwU75mXU
— The Hill (@thehill) March 22, 2021
Powell pleads insanity (of others) defense.
Don’t think so. https://t.co/xvIxvjLYUE
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 22, 2021
Sidney Powell’s defense: “Everything I said about Dominion was bullshit. If you believed anything I said, you’re an idiot. It’s your fault, not mine.”
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) March 22, 2021
Uhhhh…Sidney. https://t.co/qlfUEezrYW
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 22, 2021
Oh man, I love this. https://t.co/jpLWOAY08e
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) March 23, 2021
Absolutely infuriating. GOP lost the Senate & 5 ppl died in attack on the Capitol in part bc Sidney Powell misled millions claiming stolen elections. Now Powell backtracks saying “no reasonable person” wld believe what she *ALLEGED IN COURT* were “statements of fact”!?! Pathetic. https://t.co/2faC9Umn4g
— Rep. Peter Meijer (@RepMeijer) March 23, 2021
In claiming that “no reasonable person” would believe what she was saying to be true, Powell is impugning the intelligence of not only the former president of the United States and countless GOP lawmakers, but also millions of GOP voters. https://t.co/4wlxASHenC
— Declan Garvey (@declanpgarvey) March 23, 2021
If you're Powell's lawyers, you've got a huge challenge. You have a client who spent weeks stating provable falsehoods that were amplified and spread to millions of Americans through some of America's most popular outlets for news and commentary. Not great. /2
— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 24, 2021
Here's how it works. There are different kinds of false factual assertions. There are truly potentially damaging lies ("David was convicted of drunk driving") and obviously wild and insane accusations ("David thinks original Justice League is better than the Snyder Cut."). /4
— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 24, 2021
In other words, the argument isn't that Powell's lying. It's that she was OBVIOUSLY making wild claims. They're saying, "C'mon man. She might believe it, but no reasonable person does." But that's implicitly tossing a ton of right-wing media figures under the bus. /6
— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 24, 2021
And to think, lots of these folks make piles of money critiquing "the media" while they spewed oceans of BS into the public square–BS that Powell's own lawyers argue was objectively unreasonable to believe. Pathetic. /end
— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 24, 2021
So her defense is, if anyone believed her and her baloney, it’s their fault they are so gullible.
I don’t see this going over well with a savvy judge.
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