'Real harm and threats': Judge boots MAGA lawyer from Dominion defamation case for 'truly egregious conduct'

MAGA attorney Stefanie Lambert has been representing former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems. But on Tuesday, August 13, according to CNN, Federal Judge Moxila Upadhyaya removed Lambert from the case — citing her "truly egregious misconduct."

Lambert and Byrne are among the far-right MAGA Republicans who falsely accused Dominion Voting Systems of helping now-President Joe Biden steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump — a claim that has been repeatedly debunked.

Dominion also filed defamation lawsuits against Fox News, Newsmax TV, One America News (OAN), MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and attorney Sidney Powell. Fox agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million when a settlement was reached in April 2023.

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Upadhyaya was downright scathing in his criticism of Lambert in his August 13 decision, saying that she "flagrantly and repeatedly disregarded court orders" by publicly disclosing "thousands, if not millions" of internal documents from Dominion.

The judge wrote, "Lambert's actions were intentional and clearly meant to inflict the harm that has resulted…. This Court cannot allow such intentional, dangerous, and relentless misconduct to continue…. Byrne and Lambert's acts have not only fueled theories of widescale election fraud and crime … they have resulted in real harm and threats to Dominion employees."

CNN's Marshall Cohen describes Lambert and Byrne as "part of a coterie of Trump supporters who tried to overturn the 2020 results and are still peddling debunked claims that Dominion software manipulated the outcome."

"Separate from the Dominion litigation," Cohen notes, "Lambert is facing criminal charges in Michigan over her alleged role in a conspiracy to seize voting machines in 2020 in hopes of proving her voter fraud theories. She pleaded not guilty…. The decision to disqualify Lambert from the Dominion case comes months after she leaked internal Dominion e-mails to a right-wing Michigan sheriff who has used his office to investigate baseless theories about the 2020 election."

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Cohen adds, "The sheriff, Dar Leaf, subsequently posted many of the documents online — doxing Dominion staffers by publicly disclosing their names, email addresses, and cell phone numbers.

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Read CNN's full report at this link.