Rudy Giuliani Officially Disbarred In Washington, D.C. For Lying In Court

On Thursday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was officially disbarred in Washington, D.C. for lying in court. The decision was made through a one-page order issued by D.C.’s Court of Appeals. He is now permanently banned from practicing law in the nation’s capital.

“ORDERED that Rudolph W. Giuliani is hereby disbarred from the practice of law in the District of Columbia, nunc pro tunc [a Latin term utilized in legal parlance to mean retroactive] to August 9, 2021,” the appeal court order stated.

In July, Giuliani was disbarred in New York for his unprofessional behavior.

In early June, the D.C. Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility said the former mayor should be disbarred for lying in court filings.

“The Board agrees with the Hearing Committee that Disciplinary Counsel proved by clear and convincing evidence that Respondent violated Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct,” their report stated. “With respect to sanction, we agree with the Hearing Committee that Respondent should be disbarred.”

They also wrote that the former mayor “urged a federal judge to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania voters even though he had no objectively reliable evidence that any such scheme existed.”

The board said disbarment is not often proposed for filing frivolous lawsuits but wrote that no other cases “involve the aggravating factors” found in Giuliani’s case.

“No prior disciplinary cases involving frivolous litigation are remotely comparable to this case,” they stated. 

“We conclude that disbarment is the only sanction that will protect the public, the courts, and the integrity of the legal profession and deter other lawyers from launching similarly baseless claims in the pursuit of such wide-ranging yet completely unjustified relief,” the board mentioned.

The ex-lawyer’s spokesman, Ted Goodman, said the decision had been “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 added.

“The people coming after Mayor Giuliani can’t take away the fact that he remains the most effective prosecutor in American history, who did more to improve the lives of others than almost any other American alive today,” he concluded.

On April 24, Giuliani was indicted by an Arizona grand jury for trying to alter the state’s election results.