“Attorneys for Sidney Powell once again asked a court to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against her, arguing that she was unfairly singled out among people who falsely claimed the company rigged the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump. The attorneys’ Monday-night filing, meant to bolster a motion to dismiss the case, argued that Dominion didn’t have the standing to sue Powell” Business Insider reports.

“Powell has falsely claimed that Dominion was secretly in cahoots with the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013, and used its technology to ‘flip’ votes from Trump to Joe Biden. Powell pushed her false claims through interviews, rallies, news conferences, and four failed lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results. Powell’s attorneys, Lawrence J. Joseph and Howard Kleinhendler, said in the filing that Dominion’s lawsuit was unfair because the company didn’t also sue everyone else who supported Powell’s lawsuits. ‘Plaintiffs concede that as a public figure they must establish that Ms. Powell – the only human among defendants capable of uttering defamatory statements – acted with malice. Thus, if this Court somehow finds jurisdiction, this case must be dismissed,’ they wrote. ‘Nowhere in U.S. jurisprudence has a court found someone liable for defamation for publishing the basis of claims in four federal lawsuits supported by a combination of over 170 separate affidavits, declarations, and expert reports.'”