Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in New York State.
A Manhattan appeals court ruled Tuesday that the 80-year-old politician — once known as “America’s Mayor” — should be stripped of his license for repeatedly lying in an attempt to keep Donald Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election to President Biden.
Giuliani’s disbarment is “effective immediately,” and his name was ordered to be “stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law in the State of New York.”
A spokesman for the disgraced New York University School of Law alumnus lashed out against the ruling.
“Members of the legal community who respect the rule of law in this country should immediately come forward and speak out against this politically and ideologically corrupted decision,” Ted Goodman said on Giuliani’s behalf in a statement to the Daily News. “We will be appealing this objectively flawed decision in hopes that the appellate process will restore integrity into our system of justice.”
Giuliani was admitted to the bar in 1969. The association announced in June 2021 it would remove him as a member while recognizing Giuliani’s right to argue his case as the legal process moved forward.
His son, former gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani, lashed out at President Biden following the reprimand.
“Rudy Giuliani, the most important change agent in the history of New York City, has been disbarred,” he wrote on the social media platform X. “Joe Biden and his leftist flunkies are simply tyrannical, they will stop at nothing to hold on to power.”
Andrew Giuliani urged voters to support Trump against Biden when the two compete again in the Nov. 5 election.
Rudy Giuliani’s license in New York was suspended in 2021 following false statements made after the 2020 presidential election. Disinformation spread by the Republican politician who once served as Trump’s lawyer also made the former mayor the target of a criminal indictment in Arizona and a $148 million civil suit in Georgia.
The former prosecutor staged several embarrassing showings in service to Trump after the 2020 election. They included an infamous news conference held in front of Four Seasons Total Landscaping outside Philadelphia on the day Biden’s victory over Trump became official. That defiant rally was initially understood to be a gathering at the Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia.
Giuliani also saw his law license suspended in Washington D.C., in July 2021 as a result of his conduct in defense of the former president. A disciplinary board in the nation’s capital recommended last month he should be disbarred there as well, according to Bloomberg News.
Lies about the 2020 election led to the lethal storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Giuliani inspired the MAGA crowd, which seized the building that day to engage in “trial by combat.”
With News Wire Services
