Rudy Giuliani has officially lost his law license in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, the New York City mayor turned sycophant to Donald Trump was “disbarred from the practice of law in the District of Columbia.”
“This is 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,” Ted Goodman, a spokesperson for Giuliani, wrote in a statement to Rolling Stone. “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.”
In July of last year, a D.C. appeals court ruled that Giuliani had “forfeited his right to practice law” and “should be disbarred” for his actions attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. A report issued by the Court of Appeals found that the former mayor and attorney had violated Pennsylvania law “by filing a lawsuit seeking to change the result of the 2020 presidential election when he had no factual basis, and consequently, no legitimate legal grounds, to do so.” Giuliani’s law license was suspended pending a final ruling.
The loss of his bar accreditation is the latest in a series of legal blows against Giuliani. Earlier this week, a New York judge ruled that the former mayor owes $300,000 to a forensic accounting firm tasked with auditing his finances in now-abandoned bankruptcy proceedings sought by Giuliani.
Earlier this month, New Hampshire District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by Giuliani against President Joe Biden, which the president’s lawyers called “utterly devoid of well-pled factual allegations.”
Giuliani has been criminally charged as a party to conspiracies aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election in Arizona and Georgia — where he is a co-defendant to Trump — and was ordered to pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of committing election fraud.
At a Trump rally earlier last week, Giuliani touted his past as a U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, promising to track down individuals seeking to harm the former president. “I’ll find them!” he said. “I did it to the mafia! I can do it to them! If you’re behind it, I’m looking at you and I’m gonna get you!”
The loss of his bar accreditation certainly won’t help him achieve that promise.
