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A United States district court judge in Colorado levied penalties Wednesday against two attorneys who filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
The suit, which was dismissed in April, named public officials in four swing states, Facebook, the company s founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Dominion Voting Systems, a Denver-based company whose voting machines were at the forefront of many conspiracy theories, as conspirators in election fraud claims from Trump and his allies.
“The lawsuit put into or repeated into the public record highly inflammatory and damaging allegations that could have put individuals’ safety in danger, wrote Magistrate Judge Reid Neureiter, who noted that allegations of widespread fraud in the election led to threats against election and Dominion officials.