One Step Closer: DC Bar Panel Recommends Giuliani Be Disbarred

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 19: Rudolph Giuliani, attorney for President Donald Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee, on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 19: Rudolph Giuliani, attorney for President Donald Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee, on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election... UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 19: Rudolph Giuliani, attorney for President Donald Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee, on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Rudy Giuliani should be disbarred for bringing “frivolous” and “destructive” cases alleging voter fraud in the 2020 election, a committee of the D.C. bar said on Friday.

But this determination is not the last stop in the multi-year saga over Giuliani’s role in filing lawsuits seeking to invalidate swathes of votes in service of Trump’s attempt to reverse his 2020 loss.

The report formalizes and details what the panel decided last year: that Giuliani should be disbarred. The recommendation goes on to the D.C. bar’s board of professional responsibility, and then the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

The report focuses on a lawsuit that Giuliani filed in Pennsylvania, in which he claimed that “systemic voter fraud” should block the state from certifying its results.

“He claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence of it,” the report reads. “By prosecuting that destructive case, Mr. Giuliani, a sworn officer of the Court, forfeited his right to practice law.”

The panel found that Giuliani violated two rules of professional conduct, one having to do with bringing a frivolous proceeding, and another relating to conduct “prejudicial to the administration of law.”

The committee said it considered Giuliani’s past: his NYC mayoralty, his presence during 9/11, and his work for the Justice Department in the 1980s.

“But all of that happened long ago,” the panel found. “He sought to disrupt a presidential election and persists in his refusal to acknowledge the wrong that he has done.”

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  1. Avatar for dont dont says:

    Rudy, I believe, is gonna be first. How many more?

  2. Rudy earned disbarment and a little cell time for his role in planning the coup.

  3. The recommendation goes on to the D.C. bar’s board of professional responsibility, and then the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

    When…and then what? Can he keep saying the nonsense he’s been on about indefinitely even when disbarred…people that believe him and the Don aren’t going to stop and neither are they.

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