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Rudy Giuliani could be disbarred as a lawyer for having supported Donald Trump

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By Evaristo Lara

01 Jun 2024, 17:01 PM EDT

To the legal problems and bankruptcy faced by Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York, is added a recommendation to disqualify him as a lawyerthis in response to the support he gave to Donald Trump to avoid transferring the presidency to Joe Biden after the elections he lost in 2020.

A disciplinary board associated with the DC Bar Association recommended disbarring the 80-year-old litigant, which must be decided by the DC Court of Appeals.

Through a document, The Board of Professional Responsibility detailed the points on which it is based to sanction someone who, at the time, was an example of righteousness for New Yorkers.

“He urged a federal judge to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania voters even though he had no objectively reliable evidence that such a plan existed.

Disbarment is the only sanction that will protect the public, the courts, and the integrity of the legal profession, and will deter other attorneys from filing equally baseless lawsuits in pursuit of such broad, but completely unjustified, relief,” states part of the application submitted.

For years, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump have cultivated a friendship that is proving very harmful to the 80-year-old lawyer. (Credit: Seth Wenig/AP)

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani faces charges of election interference and is also an alleged unindicted accomplice in the federal case against Donald Trump related to the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Ted Goodman, who serves as Giuliani’s spokesman, issued a statement in which he blames the leaders of the Democratic Party for being behind the new sanction that is intended to be imposed on the Republican lawyer.

“Removing the mayor’s law license is intended to discourage lawyers from representing clients like President Donald Trump or anyone else who is willing to take on the predominant political establishment,” part of the letter states.

In December of last year, a Georgia court judge fined Rudy Giuliani $148 million, a situation that forced him to declare bankruptcy.

Faced with this scenario, a few days ago his creditors asked a judge for legal power to dispose of the assets of the still New York lawyer.

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