In the months after the election, the Texas-based attorney became one of the most public faces of a campaign to discredit President Joe Biden’s win.
Vowing to “release the Kraken,” she pushed the lie that the election was stolen from former president Donald Trump.
Now facing billion-dollar lawsuits from both companies and having lost all of her court cases challenging the election, Powell is on the defensive.
On Monday, her legal team filed a motion to dismiss Dominion’s $1.3 billion-lawsuit, or at least to move it from the federal district court in Washington, DC, to Texas.
They argued that the election fraud narrative that Powell had spent months touting as grounds to undo the presidential election was “hyperbole” and political speech entitled to protection under the First Amendment.
Powell’s lawyers argued that Dominion couldn’t meet that standard because “she believed the allegations then and she believes them now.”.
Smartmatic’s lawsuit also names Fox News, longtime Trump lawyer and ally Rudy Giuliani, and conservative commentators Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro as defendants. »