Former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who lost his Senate bid in December, is asking his supporters to help him pay the legal bills related to a lawsuit filed by a woman who accused Moore of pursuing sexual relations with her when she was 14.
Moore’s campaign sent a fundraising email to his backers Thursday, asking them to help him raise $250,000 for his legal defense fund. The conservative judge is currently being sued by Leigh Corfman, who filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore earlier this month.
“Mitch McConnell and the Senate Leadership Fund. George Soros and the Democrat Majority PAC. The Washington Post and Gloria Allred. These are the names of just a few of the organizations and people who used over $50 million to slander my reputation and character and steal a Senate election from the People of Alabama,” the email states.
“…If that wasn’t enough, lawyers from Washington, DC and San Francisco in the Covington Law Firm are now suing me in Court in Montgomery, AL to try and stop me from even defending myself against such slander,” the email continues. “I have contacted numerous lawyers ready and willing to defend me and even go on the defensive to stop these attacks on the election process.”
Corfman was one of several women who came forward last year and accused Moore of pursuing sexual or romantic relations with them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. Corfman said the conservative judge molested her when she was 14 years old.
After Corfman disclosed the allegations against Moore to the Washington Post, she said the conservative judge “called me a liar and immoral.”
Corfman argued in her lawsuit that Moore and his campaign defamed her, and requested an apology from Moore, as well as a court-enforced ban preventing Moore or his campaign from making derogatory statements about her in the future.
Moore lost the Senate special election to Democrat Doug Jones. The two were running to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions when he became attorney general.
