Pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell asked a federal court to dismiss a roughly $1.3 billion defamation suit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems, arguing that her claims the company’s voting machines rigged the election for Joe Biden represented her opinion, not statements of fact.
Dominion’s suit, filed in January, said those claims were false and that Ms. Powell’s accusations have damaged its reputation and business. A group of federal and state officials have said there is no evidence that any voting system changed or deleted votes in the 2020 general election.
Among other claims, Ms. Powell accused Dominion of fraudulently deleting or changing votes and said the company’s software was created in Venezuela to rig elections.
In its Monday motion, Ms. Powell’s legal team 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.”
The motion further argued that Ms. Powell’s claims were political speech and are therefore protected by the First Amendment.
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