Rudy Giuliani faces disbarment in DC for Trump’s 2020 election lawsuits
Kaelan Deese
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A panel for the D.C. Bar’s disciplinary counsel recommended Rudy Giuliani for potential disbarment Thursday after a hearing that determined he likely violated at least one professional ethics rule during his efforts to help overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Pennsylvania.
The committee for the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility will suggest a specific penalty at a later time for Giuliani, who faces allegations that he breached ethics rules for bringing frivolous lawsuits and doing damage to the administration of justice.
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The panel could choose a number of disciplinary measures, including disbarring him, suspending his D.C. law license, or censuring him.
Hamilton “Phil” Fox of the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel told the panel Thursday that Giuliani deserves to be disbarred, arguing he attempted to “ignore the will of the voters” and flout the U.S. Constitution. Fox investigated and made the case for disciplinary recourse against Giuliani.
“Mr. Giuliani has testified on several occasions that he believes there was a conspiracy,” Fox said, adding, “There was a conspiracy, and he was the head of it.”
Fox investigated Giuliani’s efforts to file a flurry of lawsuits in an attempt to remove hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania votes without direct evidence of election fraud.
The three-member panel’s findings came a week after testimony from Giuliani, who said Trump waived attorney-client privilege to permit him to testify, along with some of his allies, including Trump advisers Christina Bobb, Bernard Kerik, and Corey Lewandowski.
Giuliani argued that his efforts were rushed due to the narrow time frame allotted for election challenges in 2020. Following the panel’s findings, Giuliani proceeded to lash out in defense of his conduct despite his attorneys who cautioned him about speaking out.
“It is a typical, unethical, cheap attack,” Giuliani said of Fox’s presentation of his investigation, recounting his belief that there was a legitimate case there was fraud in the 2020 election.
“I’ll put my work on democracy … up against Mr. Fox and anyone else. For that man to engage in that kind of a personal attack when there was no record of that, and for you to allow him to do that, I consider an outrage,” he added.
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Attorneys for Giuliani, the former mayor of New York who served as former President Donald Trump‘s private lawyer, asked the committee for either a letter of reprimand or a private admonition. One of his attorneys, John Leventhal, raised frustrations about an inability to respond to specific charges because the committee did not immediately detail which professional rules it considers him to have violated.
Fox and Giuliani are slated to submit written responses that the committee will consider before its final decision.