By Editor,Will Potter

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A former California state legislator who tried to sue his ex-wife and her sister for meddling with his business dealings over allegations of domestic violence has seen his lawsuit thrown out by a judge.

Roger Hernandez, 50, sued his ex-wife, State Senator Susan Rubio, and her sister, State Assemblymember Blanca Rubio, accusing them of interfering with his efforts to secure government contracts.

His lawsuit came after an acrimonious divorce that forced him to drop a run for Congress in 2016.

Hernandez accused Rubio of several affairs during their marriage, while she claimed that their relationship became physical as he ‘socked’ her in the chest when he confronted her over her alleged infidelity.

She also claimed that he broke her car windshield and two cellphones ‘in a fit of anger’, court records cited by the East Bay Times found.

Hernandez has never been criminally charged over the allegations of domestic violence.

Following the divorce that ended his political career, Hernandez set up a consulting business, but accused the Rubio sisters of interfering with his attempts to win contracts for his clients.

In a ruling this week, Judge Allison Westfahl Kong granted a summary judgment to the sisters and dismissed the lawsuit, with their attorney branding his filing as ‘false and malicious litigation.’

In his filing from 2022, Hernandez accused the sisters of defaming him by publicly bringing up the domestic violence allegations, per the East Bay Times.

Hernandez said they tried to derail his post-political career by pressuring the El Monte City Council to drop a contract with an energy company that had hired him as a lobbyist.

The former lawmaker said at the time that the sisters cost him over $25,000 by ensuring he was ‘deprived of the consulting fees he would have otherwise collected’, court filings showed.

Hernandez, a Democrat, served as a California State Assemblymember from 2010 to 2016, and tried to run for Congress when he was term-limited that year.

He married Susan Rubio in 2013, but their marriage was short lived and she filed for divorce a year-and-a-half later, hitting him with a restraining order and alleging domestic violence.

In the middle of their hostile divorce, Hernandez was succeeded in his State Assembly seat by his estranged wife’s sister Blanca.

Susan was elected to the State Senate in 2018, but Hernandez’s attempts to restart his political career amid their divorce two years prior fell apart due to the allegations against him.

He dropped his campaign for Congress as he acknowledged the toll the public fallout from his marriage had on him, saying at the time: ‘I don’t have the fight in me anymore.’

‘This attack that’s been made by my ex-wife has been, quite frankly, like a Tonya Harding baseball bat to my knees. It has crippled my reputation. It has crippled my ability to fairly run and seek this office,’ he said.

The defamation portion of Hernandez’s lawsuit was previously dismissed by a judge soon after it was filed in 2022, as the judge said Hernandez could not demonstrate that the allegations of domestic violence were false.

They ruled that legal doctrine ‘bars re-litigation of the issue of whether S. Rubio was a victim of domestic violence by Hernandez due to a prior domestic violence restraining order proceeding.’

And in another hammer blow to Hernandez, the allegations about meddling in his lobbying business was dismissed last week as he did not prove a ‘causal link between (the Rubios’) alleged conduct and the disruption of Hernandez’s contract.’

The judge ruled that the El Monte City Council was within its rights to reject Hernandez’s contract with the energy company, and the judge branded his attempts to overrule it ‘too speculative.’

Daily Mail has contacted Susan Rubio’s office and Hernandez’s attorney for comment.