Pro-Trump lawyer Stefanie Lambert removed from Dominion case after leaking 2020 election documents

Pro-Trump attorney Stefanie Lambert, who is facing charges in Michigan for unlawfully accessing voting machines after the 2020 presidential election, has been disqualified from representing a prominent funder of election conspiracy theorists who was Dominion Voting Systems.

Lambert represents Patrick Byrnethe founder of Overstock.comin a defamation suit against him by Ruleone of the main targets of conspiracy theories about former President Donald Trump Election defeat 2020.

Lambert was disbarred from the case on Tuesday after admitting that she released thousands of confidential evidence documents that she had agreed to keep secret.

Because of Lambert's actions, the documents, which “all parties had agreed to keep confidential, are now widely available to the public,” wrote U.S. District Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya in a 62-page opinion.

“Lambert's repeated misconduct raises serious concerns that she has become involved in this litigation solely to gain access to and publicize Dominion's proprietary discoveries,” Upadhyaya wrote.

Lambert's attorney, Daniel Hartman, said by phone Wednesday that Lambert plans to appeal the decision.

“We are appealing,” Byrne wrote in a text to the Associated Press. “They may think it was a tactical victory, but they will see it was a strategic mistake.”

Lambert admitted to sharing Dominion Voting Systems documents with “law enforcement” earlier this year. She then attached an affidavit containing some of the leaked emails to a filing in her own Michigan case that was signed by Dar Leaf – a county sheriff in southwest Michigan who is investigating false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. The rest of the documents were posted to an account under Leaf's name on the social platform X.

Dominion then filed a motion demanding that Lambert be removed from the Byrne case because he violated a temporary restraining order that Upadhyaya had issued on the case's documents. It said Lambert's revelations had sparked a new wave of threats against the company, which is at the center of sophisticated conspiracy theories about Trump's election defeat.

Upadhyaya called the request “extraordinary” but necessary after Lambert repeatedly showed that she “has no regard for instructions or her duties as a lawyer.”

In a separate case, Lambert was charged with four felonies in Michigan for tampering with voting machines in search of evidence to support an anti-Trump conspiracy theory. She was arrested by U.S. Marshals earlier this year after a Michigan judge issued an arrest warrant for missing a hearing in her case.

Lambert, like a local official in Michigan, was also charged with several crimes, including unauthorized access to a computer and use of a computer to commit a crime, after submitting data from a local municipality's voter registration roll in connection with the 2020 election.

Lambert has pleaded not guilty in both cases.

She unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit to overturn Trump's loss in Michigan.

Mr Biden won Michigan by nearly 155,000 votes over then-President Trump, a result confirmed in 2021 by a GOP-led investigation by the state Senate.

Dominion filed several defamation lawsuits against those who spread conspiracy theories blaming the network's campaign equipment for Trump's defeat. Fox News settled the most high-profile of these cases last year for $787 million.

Dominion's lawsuit against Byrne is one of several the company has filed against prominent voter objectors, including the founder of MyPillow Michael Lindell and lawyer Sidney Powell.