DC Circuit Judge Beryl Howell on Wednesday awarded a default judgment for Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss in their federal defamation lawsuit against drunken shitbrain Rudy Giuliani, a stunning defeat in civil court just as Mayor 9/11 faces charges in a Georgia criminal court for the very same campaign of harassment he waged against the mother-daughter duo.

“Upon consideration of plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss’s Motion for Discovery Sanctions, ECF No. 81, the related legal memoranda in support and in opposition, the exhibits and declarations attached thereto, the parties’ Updated Joint Status Report, ECF No. 89, and the entire record herein, for the reasons set forth in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that plaintiffs’ Motion for Discovery Sanctions, ECF No. 81, in the form of default judgment and an award for attorneys’ fees and costs associated with filing the motion, is GRANTED; it is further ORDERED that default judgment will be entered against defendant Rudolph W Giuliani on his liability for plaintiffs defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy, and punitive damage claims, pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 37(e)(2)(C),” wrote Howell.

The lengthy ruling concludes with Howell ordering that there will still be a trial, but only to determine damages – and the jury will be instructed to consider how much Rudy fucked around and withheld documents from the plaintiffs during the discovery process, Lawfare’s Anna Bower reports.