Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been permanently disbarred from practicing law in Washington, D.C. for disseminating lies about the results of the 2020 presidential election in an effort to keep Donald Trump in office.
The latest setback for the man once celebrated as “America’s Mayor” came in the form of a two-paragraph order filed Thursday by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
According to the brief ruling, the embattled politician and former WABC radio host failed to explain why he shouldn’t be stripped of his license in D.C. after he was disbarred from practicing law in New York.
In early July, a Manhattan appeals court disbarred Giuliani after finding he had “not only deliberately violated some of the most fundamental tenets of the legal profession, but [had] also actively contributed to the national strife that has followed the 2020 Presidential election, for which he is entirely unrepentant.”
The court also ordered the name of the New York University School of Law alumnus and 2001 Time Person of the Year to be “stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law in the State of New York.”
Giuliani, who also served as Trump’s lawyer, was temporarily suspended from the D.C. bar in 2021.
Earlier this year, the D.C. Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility said in a report it had found “clear and convincing evidence” that Giuliani had violated rules of professional conduct, citing his work in Pennsylvania following Trump’s loss in 2020. The report echoed a similar decision reached by a disciplinary board in July 2023.
“We agree with the Hearing Committee that [Giuliani] should be disbarred,” the May 31 report read.
Giuliani has yet to comment on the D.C. court ruling. Earlier on Thursday, he took to social media to comment on the bombshell indictment of the city’s current mayor.
“Mayor Adams indictment may be a chance to resurrect our constitutional rights and values,” Giuliani wrote on X, adding Adams, “like me and you, is entitled to the presumption of innocence.”
Ted Goodman, Giuliani’s spokesperson, slammed the appeals court ruling as “an absolute travesty and a total miscarriage of justice.”
“Members of the legal community who want to protect the integrity of our justice system should immediately speak out against this partisan, politically motivated decision,” Goodman said in a text message.
With News Wire Services
