Key takeaways:
- The Washington, D.C. Bar Association has recommended that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani be disbarred for his handling of litigation challenging the 2020 election.
- The panel noted that Giuliani had “claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence,” and that he and other Trump lawyers repeatedly pressed claims of election fraud that were almost uniformly rejected by federal and state courts.
- The recommendation now goes to the D.C. Court of Appeals, which will make the final decision on whether Giuliani will be disbarred.
A three-lawyer panel from the Washington, D.C. Bar Association has recommended that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani be disbarred in Washington for his handling of litigation challenging the 2020 election on behalf of then-President Donald Trump.
The panel released a report on Friday that noted Giuliani’s “errors and unsupported claims” in a Pennsylvania lawsuit he argued seeking to overturn the Republican president’s loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The committee specifically pointed to Giuliani’s legal efforts to claim that there was election fraud in Pennsylvania, where Joe Biden won by more than 80,000 votes.
The panel noted that Giuliani had “claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence,” and that he and other Trump lawyers repeatedly pressed claims of election fraud that were almost uniformly rejected by federal and state courts.
The committee deliberated for months following a series of weekslong hearings about Giuliani’s efforts to help then-President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election. If the recommendation is accepted, Giuliani would become the third lawyer to lose his ability to practice law over what he did in the 2020 election.
The recommendation now goes to the D.C. Court of Appeals, which will make the final decision on whether Giuliani will be disbarred. It is unclear when the court will make its decision.
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