On Tuesday, August 13, Judge Moxila Upadhyaya did something that is quite rare for someone in his position: He removed a defendant’s lawyer from a civil defamation case. The lawyer was Stefanie Lambert, who has been defending former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in a civil defamation lawsuit initiated by Dominion Voting Systems. Lambert and Byrne are both far-right MAGA Republicans who falsely claimed that Dominion’s voting equipment was used to help now-President Joe Biden steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump — a claim that has been repeatedly debunked. In an August 14 column, MSNBC legal …
