ATLANTA — Rudy Giuliani says he can’t find a lawyer to represent him in the civil case involving two Fulton County election workers.
In a letter to a federal judge hearing the case, Giuliani said several attorneys refused to take on the case because they think the judge is biased and unreasonable.
One attorney, Giuliani wrote, called his case “a foregone conclusion” and a “no-win proposition.”
Giuliani has asked for a 30-day extension to respond to a motion for civil contempt filed by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who won a $148 million defamation lawsuit against him.
Just last month, two of the former New York City mayor’s attorneys asked to be removed from the case, citing disagreements with Giuliani.
The judge granted his request for a one-month extension to respond to a contempt motion.
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Last month, Moss and Freeman asked a judge to penalize Giuliani even further for continuing to falsely accuse them of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidential election.
The women said Giuliani has “brazenly” violated an agreement he signed to stop repeating the falsehoods, The alleged violations came in statements he made during two recent broadcasts of his nightly show on the social media platform X.
“These statements repeat the exact same lies for which Mr. Giuliani has already been held liable, and which he agreed to be bound by court order to stop repeating,” read the filing, which asked the judge to hold Giuliani in contempt and impose sanctions against him.
A lawyer for Giuliani, Joseph M. Cammarata, said he had not seen the court filing and could not respond to its specific claims, but accused the women’s attorneys of trying to intimidate the former New York City mayor. In a statement, Giuliani’s spokesperson, Ted Goodman, called the new legal filing an attempt to “deprive Mayor Rudy Giuliani of his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.”
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