Trump cronies who filed lawsuits falsely claiming election fraud must pay their targets' legal fees

The Associated Press reports that a federal magistrate has ordered lawyers who posed "baseless conspiracy theories" about the 2020 election to pay their targets' legal fees.

"The lawsuit put into or repeated into the public record highly inflammatory and damaging allegations that could have put individuals' safety in danger," Nureiter wrote, noting the Jan.

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