Giuliani Disbarred in D.C. Over Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election

A panel of judges on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday barred Rudolph W. Giuliani from practicing law in Washington because of false statements he made about the 2020 election results while he was former President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer.

The court said it acted after Mr. Giuliani failed to respond to a request to state why he should not be disbarred.

A spokesman for Mr. Giuliani, Ted Goodman, said the disbarment decision is “an absolute travesty and a total miscarriage of justice.”

“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,” Mr. Goodman said.

Mr. Giuliani served as the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York and then as New York City’s mayor, accomplishments he hoped would one day put him in the Oval Office.

He was admitted to the D.C. bar in 1976 when he worked as a senior official in the Justice Department during the Ford administration.

The decision in Washington follows similar action by the New York bar earlier this year. In that case, the court said Mr. Giuliani “baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country’s electoral process.”

The New York ruling continued, “In so doing, respondent not only deliberately violated some of the most fundamental tenets of the legal profession, but he also actively contributed to the national strife that has followed the 2020 presidential election, for which he is entirely unrepentant.”

His law license in Washington had been temporarily suspended in 2021 until there was an outcome in the New York case. Mr. Giuliani has two weeks to appeal the decision.

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