Rudy Giuliani permanently disbarred in Washington, DC
The former New York City mayor was accused of ethics breaches while representing Donald Trump during the 2020 election fight.
By Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney
09/26/2024 11:26 AM EDT
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his law license permanently revoked in the nation’s capital, following similar action by a New York court earlier this year over Giuliani’s role in former President Donald Trump’s attempt to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election.
In a one-page order Thursday, the D.C. Court of Appeals did not directly address a bar committee’s recommendation in May that Giuliani be disbarred for pressing a legal challenge to the election results in Pennsylvania without factual support for the claims.
Instead, a three-judge panel of the D.C. court found that Giuliani failed to respond to an order requiring him to explain why he shouldn’t face “reciprocal” disbarment after a New York appeals court’s decision to strip him of his law license in that state. The D.C. court temporarily suspended Giuliani in July 2021 after being notified of a similar suspension in New York.
A disciplinary panel of the D.C. Bar’s Board of Professional Responsibility in 2022 recommended Giuliani’s disbarment, triggering the indefinite suspension of his law license. Giuliani had been fighting that proposal when the appeals court made its decision Thursday.
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