A civil contempt hearing is now on the books in Washington, D.C., for Rudy Giuliani — just a day after two election workers he defamed, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, notified a judge that they believed the former New York City mayor has continued to smear them publicly.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ordered Giuliani on Thursday to respond to the motion for civil contempt by Dec.
2. The former election workers will then have until Dec. 6 to file their response to Giuliani.
The first hearing in the case will be held on Dec. 12 at the federal courthouse near the U.S.
Capitol. During that hearing, Moss and Freeman’s lawyers will ask the court to hold Giuliani in civil contempt for violating terms of an injunction placed on him last year, after a judge found him liable for defaming the women to the tune of $148 million. That verdict and the injunction that followed — which Giuliani agreed to — barred him from making any more defamatory remarks about the women going forward.
The women say that lasted only months. In recent comments on his podcast, “America’s Mayor Live,” Giuliani repeated his lie that the mother-daughter duo passed a USB drive to each other containing votes for Joe Biden when they were working the polls at an arena in Atlanta in Nov. 2020.
Giuliani has long claimed the women somehow planned to upload phony vote records from the USB drive and tamper with the election results. Giuliani’s statements aired on Nov. 12 and Nov.
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