A subpoena was issued to the former Attorney General, William Barr, after he told the House January 6 Committee he believed far-right fraud claims about the voting machines.
Bill Barr is the US Attorney General.
The court docket shows that a judge in Delaware granted a subpoena for Barr on Friday.
A number of subpoenas were filed in the case last week, including for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who was fired by Donald Trump for saying there was no voter fraud.
Right-wing attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, as well as MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, are being sued by the company for defamation.
The court docket doesn't say what information the company is seeking from Barr.
After testifying to the House January 6 Committee, Barr said he saw no basis for the allegations of voter fraud made by Trump allies.
According to testimony that the House committee played at a public hearing on June 13, Barr told Trump that the fraud claims were crazy. It was doing a disservice to the nation.
Fox News said any claims it made about the company on the network are protected by the First Amendment. The network is confident that they will prevail as freedom of the press is fundamental to our democracy and must be protected, in addition to the damages claims being outrageous, unsupported and not based in sound financial analysis, serving as nothing more than a blatant attempt to deter our journalists from doing their job.
The case against Fox News will go to trial in Delaware in April of 2023. The case moved forward after the network lost its motion to dismiss it.
In March of 2021, the right-wing network Fox News was sued for over a billion dollars, accusing it of recklessly ignoring the truth and pushing false fraud claims to get viewers to switch to another network. There are at least eight lawsuits that have been filed in the aftermath of the 2020 election over the conspiracy theory. Fox News and many of the same Trump allies have been sued by a rival voting company over fraud claims. The Murdochs and other Fox executives were accused in the lawsuit of orchestrating the network's alleged defamatory coverage. The case was heard in Delaware state court.
The court allowed the Fox lawsuit to move forward.
Fox News was accused of voting for the election conspiracy.
The lawsuit was filed against Fox News.
The judge rules that the defamation lawsuit against Fox can move forward.
The hearing shows rioters repeating Trump's baseless election claims.
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