Roy Moore Seeks To Revive $95M Defamation Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen For “Pedo Detector” Prank

Law & Crime reports:

Former Alabama Judge Roy Moore’s attorney compared his client to Johnny Depp in a federal appeals court on Friday, in a bid to revive his $95 million defamation suit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen over a sketch lampooning the would-be politician as a pedophile.

“He deserves a jury,” Moore’s lawyer Larry Klayman declared during oral arguments before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. “Johnny Depp deserved a jury trial.”

Moore has been trying to overturn a federal judge’s ruling from last July dismissing his suit, after finding Cohen’s sketch was “clearly a joke.”

Read the full article. As I reported in May 2021, Klayman failed to appear at a hearing he had demanded to boot a federal judge from the case.

I’ve been reporting on Klayman for so many years, I can’t even keep track of how many crackpots he has represented or the insane suits he has filed.

Perhaps most memorable is the time he stood outside the White House with a bullhorn and shouted for President Obama to “put down the Koran and come out with your hands up.” Klayman, you may recall, filed multiple birther lawsuits against Obama.

In 2020, a federal court dismissed his multi-billion dollar suit on behalf of Laura Loomer against Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook. Last year he sued the government of China for $20 billion for releasing COVID as a “bioweapon.”