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Giuliani DISBARRED Permanently Over Role in TRUMP Election Plot
Rudy Giuliani DISBARRED Permanently in Washington DC Over Role in TRUMP Election Plot
Ex-New York mayor, who played key role in promoting 2020 election lies, permanently suspended from practising law
The Guardian 27 SEP 2024
Rudy Giuliani disbarred in Washington DC over role in Trump election plot
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who built a career as an uncompromising crime-fighter, has been permanently disbarred from practising law in Washington DC in a ruling stemming from his role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Donald Trumps favour.
The decision came in the form of a one-page order issued by the US capitals court of appeal and followed a similar order issued in July in New York, Giulianis home state.
'ORDERED that Rudolph W Giuliani is hereby disbarred from the practice of law in the District of Columbia, nunc pro tunc [a Latin term used in legal parlance to mean retroactive] to August 9, 2021, Thursdays appeal court order said.'
In 2021, the appeals court had suspended Giulianis law licence in Washington after being notified of a similar decision in New York.
The DC bars board of responsibility recommended in 2022 that Giulianis law licence be indefinitely revoked after its investigators found him guilty of unethical conduct over inaccurate and unsupported claims he made in testimony to a federal court in Pennsylvania while disputing the 2020 election results.
The DC court of appeals order did not hinge on those findings. By contrast, the New York appeals court made similar judgments in issuing its ruling, asserting that Giuliani repeatedly and intentionally made false statements, some of which were perjurious, to the federal court, state lawmakers, the public and this Court concerning the 2020 Presidential election.
Ted Goodman, a spokesman for Giuliani called the order an absolute travesty and a total miscarriage of justice.
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