A federal judge in DC District Court granted Dominion Voting Systems’ motion to dismiss a countersuit Trump lawyer and woman who swiped right seeing Sasquatch’s profile on Tinder Sidney Powell on Wednesday, stating that Powell did not even attempt to fulfill the requirements for even filing a counterclaim.

Noting she filed the countersuit claiming that Dominion abused federal judicial processes, Judge Carl Nichols stated that Powell failed to specify or describe any malfeasance undertaken by Dominion after they filed the billion-dollar defamation suit against Powell for her false claims that Dominion voting machines were designed to be manipulated and that the company changed the results of the 2020 election.  Powell filed the suit claiming Dominion simply wanted “to punish and make an example” out of her.

While it’s obviously true that Dominion wants Powell punished for costing the company business by spreading false claims, Nichols said Powell didn’t even try to explain what part of the judicial process was abused by Dominion filing its lawsuit. 

Powell claimed that in an effort to get a man to stop making defamatory statements, Dominion abused the judicial process because they sent a copy of the initial filing paperwork from its lawsuit against Powell to the individual.  She also cited Dominion personnel’s public statements that it would file similar lawsuits against other people it alleges defamed it.  Nichols noted that neither of these actions was exploitive or abusive of the judicial system.

“Powell’s core allegation is that ‘Dominion’s initiation and maintenance of its lawsuit against Defendants constitutes an abuse of process,'” Nichols wrote in his dismissal order.  “Instead, Powell must allege that Dominion, after filing its suit, performed some act that perverted the judicial process. But Powell’s complaint fails to link her abuse-of-process claim to any act that Dominion has taken other than filing and pursuing its lawsuit.  She has thus failed to state a claim for abuse of process.”  [Note:  citations removed from quoted text.]