‘I miss my name’: Giuliani verdict lays bare limits of defamation law

The $148.1m award to election workers for his lies is only a small measure of justice because damaged reputations can't be restored

About halfway down the main hallway in the federal courthouse in Washington DC are the names of every judge who has sat on the bench since the early 1800s. Printed in gold lettering, the names include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Antonin Scalia and Ketanji Brown Jackson, all of whom have gone on to the highest levels of public service.

But this week, four floors above that hallway, in courtroom 26A, two little-known public servants mourned the moment they lost their own names.