Fox News personalities Maria Bartiromo and Jeannine Pirro, as well as former Fox News host Lou Dobbs, filed separate motions on Friday to dismiss defamation lawsuits from election technology firm Smartmatic. Fox News previously moved to dismiss the $2.7 billion Smarmatic lawsuit that alleged the three hosts caused it financial harm following the Nov. 3 election. The firm also filed lawsuits against attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani. “Smartmatic’s headline-seeking, multi-billion-dollar lawsuit thus should be seen—and rejected—for what it is: an unconstitutional attempt by a money-losing company (Smartmatic reported $17 million in losses on just $144 million in revenue in 2019) to try to refill its coffers at the expense of our constitutional traditions,” a Fox News spokesperson said in a news release on Friday in announcing the motions to dismiss the lawsuit. The new motions filed on Friday said that Dobbs, Pirro, and Baritromo are protected journalists under the First …