Dominion case have been removed by pro-Trump lawyer after the documents got leaked

Pro-Trump attorney facing felony charges in Michigan for unlawfully accessing voting equipment after the 2020 presidential election is not permitted to represent a well-known election conspiracy theorist financier that Dominion Voting Systems is suing. Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne is being sued for slander by Dominion, which is one of the primary targets of conspiracy theories over former President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. Michigan attorney Stefanie Lambert is defending Byrne in this case.

After acknowledging that she had leaked thousands of private discovery documents that she had promised to keep secret, Lambert was eliminated from the case on Tuesday. The records that all parties “had agreed to keep confidential, have now been shared widely in the public domain,” as a result of Lambert’s conduct.

U.S. District Court Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya wrote in a 62-page opinion. “Lambert’s repeated misconduct raises the serious concern that she became involved in this litigation for the sheer purpose of gaining access to and publicly sharing Dominion’s protected discovery,” wrote Upadhyaya.

Daniel Hartman, Lambert’s attorney, stated over the phone on Wednesday that Lambert will be “appealing the decision.”

“We’re making an appeal,” Byrne texted The Associated Press. “They’ll realize it was a strategic error even though they initially believed it to be a tactical win.”

Lambert admitted earlier this year giving “law enforcement” access to documents obtained from Dominion Voting Systems. She then filed a petition in her own Michigan case with an affidavit signed by Dar Leaf, a county sheriff in southwest Michigan who had looked into fictitious allegations of major voter fraud from the 2020 election, and which contained some of the hacked emails. The remaining documents were uploaded to a social media platform X account that was registered in Leaf’s name.

Because of Lambert’s violation of a protective order Upadhyaya had placed on case records, Dominion filed a motion to have Lambert removed from the Byrne case. It said that Lambert’s revelation had led to further threats being directed against the business, which has been the focus of intricate conspiracy theories over Trump’s defeat.

Upadhyaya called the request “extraordinary,” but it was also important because Lambert has consistently demonstrated that she “has no regard for orders or her obligations as an attorney.”

In a another instance, Lambert was accused of four crimes in Michigan for using voting machines to obtain information for a Trump conspiracy theory. Earlier this year, she was taken into custody by US Marshals after a Michigan judge ruled a bench warrant for missing a hearing in her case.

Lambert, who transmitted 2020 election-related data from a local township’s vote book, has been accused with numerous charges, including illegal access to a computer and using a computer to conduct a felony, together with a municipal clerk in Michigan. In both instances, Lambert entered a not guilty plea. Lambert filed a lawsuit in Michigan, but it was unsuccessful.

An study conducted in 2021 by the GOP-led state Senate verified that Biden had won Michigan by almost 155,000 votes over the then-President Trump. Dominion sued people for defamation on many occasions, accusing them of spreading conspiracy theories that linked its electoral apparatus to Trump’s defeat. The most well-known of these cases was resolved by Fox News for $787 million in the previous year.