Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who represented former President Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, has been disbarred from practicing law in the District of Columbia, a local appeals court ruled Thursday.
Giuliani’s law license in the District of Columbia had been temporarily suspended since the summer 2021, but the one-page decision from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals orders the former federal prosecutor to be disbarred. Records show Giuliani was admitted to the D.C. Bar in 1976.
The appeals court ruled that Giuliani should be disbarred in D.C. because he had been disbarred in New York in July, citing rules of reciprocity between the two jurisdictions. The order noted that Giuliani had the opportunity “to show cause why reciprocal discipline should not be imposed” but never filed a response.
Giuliani has also been the focus of a separate disbarment proceeding in Washington. In that case, the D.C. Board of Professional Responsibility recommended in May that Giuliani lose his license for good over his efforts to reverse the election results in Pennsylvania and claims made in a federal lawsuit that elections boards there were engaged in a scheme to rig the election against Trump. President Biden won the state of Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes.
Omg the photo. This guy is a Gotham villian. the dripping hair dye! The Four Seasons!
The only reason he in still in a position of power is because New York does not have a guy dressed as a bat running around at night busting heads.
I’m surprised he ever passed a bar in the first place, he seems the type who would always go in and have a few
He’s a boomer. He probably went drinking with the committee and woke up with a pass.
Too old to be a boomer, he’d silent generation. The rest of your comment is still probably accurate though.
“The order noted that Giuliani had the opportunity “to show cause why reciprocal discipline should not be imposed” but never filed a response.”
You know, for a guy who continues to claim he has the evidence, and that he’ll show it any day now, he seems really bad at trying to protect himself.
“There are things we didn’t present then, because over the next couple years, a lot of people did a lot of work and have been able to produced more witnesses, and what I would call ‘scientific evidence’ that I would say is very persuasive,”
When you’re being sued or disbarred, that’s the time to bring your evidence!
Seems unnecessary. With his notriaty, if you are dumb enough to hire him as your lawyer, you kind of get what you deserve.
