The 19th: “A Washington, D.C., jury ruled Friday that Rudy Giuliani, the former attorney for President Donald Trump, must pay $148 million in damages for defaming former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in a case at the intersection of democracy and racialized threats that featured wrenching testimony.
Freeman and Moss, a mother and daughter who worked the 2020 election, sued Giuliani in late 2021 for his role in falsely accusing them of engaging in election fraud while they were counting ballots at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Moss was, at the time, a full-time worker at the Fulton County Elections Department, and Freeman volunteered to help with the vote count. “