DC Court Suspends Giuliani From Practicing Law Amid 2020 Disciplinary Case
Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is again suspended from practicing law in Washington, D.C. while a disciplinary case over his falsehoods about voter fraud in the 2020 election proceeds against him.
Court records show the former New York City mayor is still suspended from practicing law pending the outcome of his case in the D.C. Court of Appeals, which governs members of the bar, according to an order issued Tuesday. He was initially suspended in 2021.
In May, a disciplinary board for the D.C. bar recommended that Giuliani be disbarred in the nation’s capital for his 2020 efforts. Giuliani testified before the board’s committee that he did the best he could do “under the circumstances.”
Earlier this month, a New York attorney grievance committee disbarred Giuliani, effective immediately, over his involvement in pushing “The Big Lie” that the presidential election was stolen from Trump.
Giuliani was among the first of Trump’s 2020 attorneys to face professional consequences. Roughly six months after a mob of Trump supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a New York disciplinary committee suspended Giuliani’s license to practice law in the state.
He joins a slew of other former Trump attorneys and allies facing professional or criminal consequences (or both, in Giuliani’s case) related to their efforts to help Trump overturn the election. The former president faces two criminal indictments in Georgia and in federal court.
Read the D.C. disbarment recommendation against Giuliani here.