Jeanine Pirro is named in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News within the Dominion Voting System for the network’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, according to documents obtained by Reuters. NPR,
The voting tech company argues that by questioning Pirro, it reaches a legal requirement to prove that Fox showed “genuine malice” when it repeatedly circulated rumors and criticized Donald Trump, other right-wing personalities and far-right QAnon circulated lies made by conspiracy theorists. That Dominion tried to hand the presidential race to Joe Biden.
“Discovery Reveals That … Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro Help[ed] Spreading truly false but devastating lies against Dominion, according to documents filed Thursday in a Delaware court against Dominion. However, Pirro is not being named as a defendant in the lawsuit against Fox Corp.
August 25. According to new York Times Reportedly, Pirro, Steve Ducey and the Fox News show’s producers have already given their testimony, followed by Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs and Tucker Carlson.
In March, Dominion Voting Systems filed its defamation case against Fox News over on-air claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, involving “hacked” or compromised voting machines and other claims that were never confirmed. Had happened.
Dominion alleges that Fox made the hoax claims to keep viewers away from other right-wing news outlets. “Truth matters. Lies have consequences,” Dominion’s lawyers wrote in their legal filing.
First Amendment scholars say the case can set an important legal precedent for defamation cases.
NPR reported earlier this month that a Fox producer expressed concerns via email to coworkers about Pirro being kept on the air after the November 2020 election, saying that he’s not following what Trump was saying at the time. Was pulling conspiracy theories from extremist websites to justify.
Dominion also pointed to a November 14, 2020 section in which Pirro interviewed Trump’s campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, who made unsubstantiated claims. “She not only allowed Ms. Powell to broadcast such nonsense, not only extended it on her ‘Justice with Judge Jeanine’ program, [but] Ms. Pirro’s conduct and role in spreading this propaganda are central to Dominion’s claims,” Dominion’s lawyers wrote.