Dem Rep Demands Giuliani Lose Law License After Election Legal Battles Hit Dead End

President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, talks to journalists outside the White House West Wing on July 1, 2020. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) filed complaints in five states on Friday demanding that Rudy Giuliani and 22 other lawyers working with the Trump campaign be disbarred for filing “frivolous” lawsuits and allegedly engaging in “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation” in their failed attempts to overturn the election results.

Giuliani has happily waged Trump’s election delegitimization war for him, launching unsuccessful legal challenges in several swing states as part of an effort to cast doubt on President-elect Joe Biden’s legitimate victory. Trump’s personal lawyer has held bizarre press conferences where his conspiracy-laden meltdowns have spurred blistering rebukes from federal judges.

Pascrell isn’t taking Giuliani’s flailing attempts at overturning election results lightly.

Pascrell told the Washington Post on Tuesday that his rationale for filing the complaints against Giuliani and other Trump campaign lawyers has much to do with how President Trump “has done great damage to this nation — but he has always had helpers.”

“These lawyers are enabling his treachery and harming our democracy,” Pascrell told the Post through a spokesperson on Monday, before argue that the campaign legal team committed “misconduct and an affront to the rule of law” in their unsuccessful attempts to overturn election results.

The Post reported that Pascrell filed grievances with regulatory and disciplinary boards within the state bar associations in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Giuliani’s home state of New York.

Pascrell argued that there is no time better than now for Giuliani — who reportedly requested that the Trump campaign pay him $20,000 a day for his legal work, which Trump’s personal lawyer denied — to be held accountable.

“Failure to hold Giuliani and his crew accountable by revoking their licenses will only invite further abuses by bad actors and push America closer to lawlessness and authoritarianism,” Pascrell told the Post.

The Post noted that disbarring a lawyer happens infrequently, citing the American Bar Association’s Survey on Lawyer Discipline in 2018, which estimated that among the roughly 1.3 million active and licensed lawyers in the country, only 378 were involuntarily disbarred that year.

However, there are substantial consequences when a lawyer is disbarred. In Nevada, which is one of the five where Pascrell filed complaints against Giuliani, disbarment means that a lawyer is banned from practicing law in the state.

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  1. This, plus a stake through the heart, would be a good 9/11 start…

  2. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) filed complaints in five states on Friday demanding that Rudy Giuliani and 22 other lawyers working with the Trump campaign be disbarred for filing “frivolous” lawsuits and allegedly engaging in “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation”

    Long shot, but necessary.

    Kudos.

  3. The Post reported that Pascrell filed grievances with regulatory and disciplinary boards within the state bar associations in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Giuliani’s home state of New York.

    Why’d Pascrell leave out DC, which is one of the bars ghoulsie cited as being in good standing with when he filed his pro hac vice request for PA federal court? Is there a technicality where you can’t be disbarred if you’re not current on dues? Inquiring Rudies want to know.

  4. Yes, disbarments are rare. But is there any precedent for what Pascrell’s complaint alleges?

  5. The Post noted that disbarring a lawyer happens infrequently, citing the American Bar Association’s Survey on Lawyer Discipline in 2018, which estimated that among the roughly 1.3 million active and licensed lawyers in the country, only 378 were involuntarily disbarred that year.

    How many of those 378 disbarred lawyers committed treason and tried to steal an election?

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