Washington — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who represented former President Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, has been disbarred in the District of Columbia, a local appeals court ruled Thursday.
Giuliani’s Law License in the District of Columbia had been suspended since summer 2021, but the one-page decision from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals orders the former federal prosecutor’s disbarment.
Disciplinary proceedings against Giuliani in Washington DC began in June 2021 in response to a New York court ruling. hang it up from the practice of law. The court found that he spread falsehoods about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election while serving as personal attorney for Trump and the Trump campaign.
The New York appeals court said at the time that there was “compelling evidence” that Giuliani had disseminated “patently false and misleading statements” to courts, lawmakers and the public in his efforts to overturn the election results.
He was officially disbarred Giuliani was elected in July in New York, a dramatic fall for the politician who served as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor and later led New York City as mayor. Giuliani was dubbed “America’s mayor” after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
His latest disbarment adds to a myriad of legal troubles for Giuliani stemming from failed efforts to subvert the transfer of power after the 2020 election. He faces charges in Georgia And Arizona arising from alleged efforts to reverse the outcome of elections in those two states, and has pleaded not guilty in both cases.
A federal judge also held him responsible last year for defaming two former Georgia election officials, and a jury ordered him to pay them $148 million. Giuliani filed for bankruptcy following the decision.
