Dominion is suing Fox News over the right-wing channel’s airing of false claims of election fraud around the 2020 presidential election.
Fox News argued that Dominion should instead rely on the “lengthy depositions” that these witnesses already gave.
It claims Dominion hasn’t shown anything strong enough to overcome the high bar that the First Amendment provides, protecting good-faith journalists from speech-chilling defamation lawsuits.
Dominion lawyer Rodney Smolla said its high-stakes defamation case against Fox News will protect the public discourse and hold accountable people who deliberately lied about the 2020 election.
“They endorsed,” Murdoch said, referring to Fox hosts Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, and former host Lou Dobbs.