An appeals court suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race.
An attorney disciplinary committee said in its motion to suspend Giuliani’s license that there was “uncontroverted evidence” that Giuliani had made false statements to the courts, the public and lawmakers as he pushed theories that the election was stolen through fraud.
“This country is being torn apart by continued attacks on the legitimacy of the 2020 election and of our current president, Joseph R. Biden,” the committee wrote. “The hallmark of our democracy is predicated on free and fair elections. False statements intended to foment a loss of confidence in our elections and resulting loss of confidence in government generally damage the proper functioning of a free society.”
The ruling, signed Thursday, will prevent Giuliani from representing clients as a lawyer.
In the decision, the committee wrote that Giuliani “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large” as a lawyer for Trump.
Giuliani had claimed that the investigation into his conduct violated his First Amendment right of free speech and that he did not knowingly make false statements, according to the decision.
The court rejected those arguments, noting that in Pennsylvania, Giuliani failed to “provide a scintilla of evidence for any of the varying and wildly inconsistent numbers of dead people he factually represented voted in Philadelphia during the 2020 presidential election.”
A message seeking comment about the ruling was sent Thursday to Giuliani and his lawyer.
Giuliani was the primary mouthpiece for Trump’s lies after the 2020 election, standing at a press conference in front of Four Seasons Total Landscaping outside Philadelphia on the day the race was called for Biden and saying they would challenge what he claimed was a vast conspiracy by Democrats.
The lies around the 2020 election helped push an angry mob of pro-Trump rioters to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a shocking effort to stop the certification of President Biden’s victory. And since that time, Republicans have used that lie to push stricter voting laws nationwide.
(AP)
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8 Responses
Certain justice and the long arm of the law is catching up with Rudy the racketeer
The election was stolen. What else did you want him to say. Why can’t YWN understand this? Every single measure and indicator shows that Trump should have won. But somehow Biden eked out 80 million votes, a world record, only after the polling stations in key districts closed temporarily in the early morning hours. Trump was ahead, but when the polling station reopened Biden was in the lead. Stolen
Not clear why it took the NYS Bar Association this long to suspend Crazy Rudy’s license to practice in New York courts. After that surreal “press conference” in front adjacent to the landscaping garage and porn shop in Suburban Philly and subsequent performance where he incurred a literal “meltdown”, it was clear the guy was either ganz meshugah or a pervasive liar. I suspect the next time he appears in a Courtroom it will be at the Federal Courthouse in lower Manhattan for an arraignment
evidence” that Giuliani had made false statements to the courts Wicked evil travesty of justice to suspend Rudy’s license. Every defense attorney makes false statements to vindicate their client, and that is the sick nature of this business, so shame on this wicked appeals court to have suspended the license of the most decent man in all of NYC.
Just wondering, if this is the consequence for saying such lies, then who’s to say that they were lies and not “cancelled truth”?
Just sayin, ya know.
Wow, no slant in this article…
Bill Clinton, Barack, Michele also had their law licenses suspended for impropriety as lawyers. Funny, no big deal !!!
There is one law for republicans and another for democrats.
B’vah’chah’shah, suggest all Jews do More Talmud T_rah (MTT), More Davvening (MD) and More Chessed (MC).
Such studies are for all time and are never amended !!!
All the best,
A goy, Gerry Mullen
And the AP isn’t biased, is it? “Trump’s lies”? So if I disagree, disbelieve or object to any individual I can say he/she “lies”?
I’m so glad I live in Israel, with it’s stable, effective government.
Yeah I’m joking…sort of.