Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in Washington, DC, Thursday over false claims about the 2020 presidential election when he represented former President Donald Trump.
The DC Court of Appeals order stripping the 80-year-old former mayor and prosecutor of his law license in the nation’s capital follows a July ruling by a New York appeals court which banned Giuliani from practicing law in his home state.
The three-judge panel in DC noted that Giuliani did not respond to an order offering him a chance to explain why he should be allowed to continue as a member of the DC Bar after being disbarred in New York.
“This is an absolute travesty and a total miscarriage of justice,” Ted Goodman, a spokesman for Giuliani, said in a statement.
“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,” Goodman added. “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.”
The DC court had previously suspended Giuliani’s law license in 2021 and a review panel last year recommended that he be disbarred over claims he made in a Pennsylvania lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
Giuliani “claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence,” the panel wrote, accusing the former mayor of being involved in an “effort to undermine the integrity of the 2020 presidential election” that “helped destabilize our democracy.”
“The misconduct here sadly transcends all his past accomplishments,” the panel of judges argued.
Giuliani, once hailed as “America’s Mayor” for his leadership in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, has been mired in legal woes since the 2020 election.
He has been hit with criminal indictments in Georgia and Arizona related to his alleged work to overturn the 2020 election results in those states.
He was indicted on nine felony counts in Arizona and 13 in Georgia. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges in both cases.
The former mayor also filed for bankruptcy last December after being hit with a $148 million judgement in a defamation case after falsely accusing two Georgia poll workers of trying to cheat Trump out of votes in the Peach State.
Giuliani’s New York bankruptcy case was dismissed in July after a judge ruled that he had repeatedly been evasive about his assets.
