A Dallas County judge on Monday ordered Glenn Beck and his conservative media company The Blaze to produce emails between them and a reporter for The Daily Caller related to the controversial pundit Tomi Lahren.

The order comes a week after Civil District Judge Martin Hoffman ordered both sides to not disparage each other. Two days later, The Daily Caller, a right-wing news website, published a story slamming Lahren as a dishonest attention-seeker who was rude to her staff, citing anonymous sources.

Lahren, 24, is suing Beck and The Blaze, based in Irving, to free her from her work contract. Lahren says her bosses canceled her show, Tomi, after she said she supported abortion rights and believed it was hypocritical to support both small government and restrictions on abortion. The Blaze has said in court filings that Lahren was in trouble at work long before she made those comments.

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At a hearing Monday, Lahren's attorney, Brian Lauten, argued that The Daily Caller article could only have come from The Blaze and that it was designed to hurt Lahren's career.

"If she wants to go work at Fox or NBC or CNN, hypothetically, she's got to be employable," Lauten, said. "This article accuses her of being a diva, polarizing, a queen, sitting on a microwaved butt-warmer — and it goes to the core of her honesty."

As her lawyer spoke, Lahren nodded.

She again nodded as Lauten said he believed only 10 to 15 employees at The Blaze — people who worked on her show — would be possible sources for The Daily Caller's article.

Eli Burriss, a lawyer for Beck and The Blaze, said his clients were already searching emails to determine whether any employees talked to The Daily Caller.

Tomi Lahren listened as her attorneys Brian Lauren (left) and Chris Simmons (center) appeared at a court hearing in Dallas on Monday. Lawyer Eli Burriss (right) represented The Blaze and Glenn Beck at the proceeding. (David Woo/Staff Photographer)

"The defendants take these allegations seriously," Burriss said, adding that he still disagrees with the merits of Lahren's contempt motion.

Hoffman said if he finds that Blaze employees violated his nondisparagement order, he can fine them up to $500 or six months in jail.

He also ordered The Blaze to make Beck, a corporate Blaze representative and up to three employees — if they're believed to have talked to The Daily Caller — available for sworn depositions.

1 / 4Tomi Lahren confers with attorneys Brian Lauten (left) and Chris Simmons about a future court appearance date. (David Woo/Staff Photographer) 2 / 4Tomi Lahren, attended a hearing in Dallas County Civil District Court on Monday, April 24, 2017 for a judge to consider her attorneys' motion to hold her onetime employer Glenn Beck and The Blaze in contempt of court. (David Woo/The Dallas Morning News)(Staff Photographer) 3 / 4Tomi Lahren talks with her attorneys Brian Lauten before her hearing at Dallas County Civil District Court on Monday, April 24, 2017 for a judge to consider her attorneys' motion to hold her onetime employer Glenn Beck and The Blaze in contempt of court. (David Woo/The Dallas Morning News)(Staff Photographer) 4 / 4Tomi Lahren's attorneys Chris Simmons, left, and Brian Lauten, center, and representing The Blaze and Glenn Beck, Eli Burriss, right, during a hearing in Dallas County Civil District Court on Monday, April 24, 2017 for a judge to consider her attorneys' motion to hold her onetime employer Glenn Beck and The Blaze in contempt of court. (David Woo/The Dallas Morning News) (Staff Photographer)

The Daily Caller reporter who wrote the story, Peter Hasson, said in a written message, "All I have to say is that I will never give up my sources."

After the hearing, Lahren said she was glad to have regained access to her Facebook page. The judge's order last week also prohibited The Blaze from restricting her access to the social media page, which The Blaze set up for her and on which she has garnered 4.3 million fans.

"Being able to get back on that Facebook page and post videos of news of the day and get back to what I believe is my job — that is what is most important to me," Lahren said. "Anytime I can do that and watch the millions of views come in from my kitchen, I'm much more content inside. So it's a process, but I'm weathering the storm just fine.”