Attorneys for lawyer Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell argued Thursday during a federal district court in the District of Columbia that a defamation lawsuit filed by elections technology firm Dominion Voting Systems should be thrown out. They argued that Dominion acted in a government capacity during the last election by providing counties with election software. As a result, their lawyers said the firm has to prove Powell and Lindell acted with malice when they made claims against the company after the Nov. 3 election, citing previous court cases that barred public officials from filing lawsuits against individuals who criticized them. “If you are criticizing the government … that is not actionable,” Doug Daniels, an attorney for Lindell, said in court on Thursday, adding the company should be classified as a government entity “because they’re administering the election.” But Tom Clare, Dominion’s attorney who filed billion-dollar lawsuits against …