The lawyer who originally represented former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson before the Jan. 6 Select Committee has won a default judgement in his suit against the government.
In December, Stefan Passantino sued the government alleging that the House Democrat-led Jan. 6 investigation violated his rights to due process and tarnished his reputation for uncritically reproducing Hutchinson's claims about his legal representation of her.
Passantino's lawyers asked the court to grant a default judgement since the government had failed to plead in the case.
"As of the time of this filing, the United States of America has not answered or otherwise responded to the Complaint and thus it is in default," their filing read, according to court documents reviewed by Just the News.
The Jan. 6 Select Committee in its final report of December 2022 has accused Passantino of coaching or pressuring Cassidy Hutchinson before her testimony before the committee to stay loyal to Trump, something he has adamantly denied.
Just the News previously documented several new narratives Hutchinson brought to the committee after Passantino ceased representing her, including the infamous story about then-President Trump allegedly grabbing the wheel of the presidential vehicle in anger.
Last month, Passantino was cleared by both the Georgia and Washington, D.C. Bars after complaints were filed against him for alleged improper conduct in his representation of Hutchinson.
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