Supreme Court won't let MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell dodge Dominion's $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit

• SCOTUS shot down MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's attempt to dodge a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit.
• Voting tech company Dominion sued Lindell for spreading false claims about its role in the 2020 election.

The Supreme Court on Monday shot down MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's latest attempt to dodge a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit from voting technology company Dominion.

Dominion sued Lindell and his home goods company in February 2021, alleging that he defamed them when he hurled false conspiracy theories about the company's role in the 2020 election.

The Supreme Court's decision leaves in place a lower court ruling allowing the lawsuit to move forward.

When asked if Lindell's team was disappointed with the court's decision, Lindell's attorney Kurt Olsen highlighted to Insider that the court only takes "a handful" of petitions among the "thousands" filed.

"Not having the Supreme Court accept the case doesn't mean anything in terms of the merits of the action," Olsen told Insider.

For his part, Lindell told Insider that the Supreme Court's decision was "expected" for him, because "nothing surprises him anymore."

"It's just another poor ruling, you know. It just ends up being very costly for me, to get all this evidence for the country out there," he added. He added that all the evidence he had on hand is "sitting in Nevada," and that his team will be sending out subpoenas to "a lot of very big names in the next couple of weeks."

Weighing in on the Dominion lawsuit, Lindell said he maintained his position that they were party to "one of the biggest crimes in history."

"I can't wait for the day we melt down those machines and turn them into prison bars," Lindell told Insider, insisting that getting rid of machine companies like Smartmatic and Dominion would guarantee "free and fair elections" in the country. "It's a shame that there'll be a lot more money I'll have to put up, just to keep fighting this frivolous lawsuit."

Dominion maintains that Lindell, who is an ardent supporter of Donald Trump, continues to push the embattled former president's baseless election fraud theories as a way to sell more pillows. The company said in a January court filing that there was no "realistic possibility" of it settling its $1.3 billion lawsuit with Lindell, given the "devastating harm" it said he and other Trump allies caused the company.

Meanwhile, Lindell's loyalty to Trump continues exacting a heavy toll. After his phone was confiscated by FBI agents investigating Lindell's alleged attempts at discrediting the 2020 election, Lindell estimated that he'd lost millions of dollars in financing from lenders who "don't want to get canceled." In September, Lindell sued the FBI, accusing the agency of violating his "First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment" rights by seizing his phone.

Lindell has reportedly spent half of his estimated $50 million fortune trumpeting Trump's election theories, and pumped around $10 million into creating MAGA-friendly social media hub Frank Speech after getting banned from Twitter for spreading disinformation.

In addition to counter-suing Dominion, Lindell announced that he planned to file a class action lawsuit against all voting machines while stumping for Trump-backed election denier and gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in Arizona. This appears to be an additional legal effort on top of Lindell's attempt in April to bankroll lawsuits nationwide to halt the use of voting machines in all 50 states, starting with Arizona.

"We're going to get rid of these machines once and for all for any election in history," Lindell told rally-goers supporting Lake's bid.