From The NYTimes:
A panel of judges on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday barred Rudolph W. Giuliani from practicing law in Washington because of false statements he made about the 2020 election results while he was former President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer.
You can read the order here:
On consideration of the certified order from the state of New York disbarring respondent from the practice of law; this court’s July 25, 2024, order maintaining respondent’s suspension pending final disposition of this proceeding and directing him to show cause why reciprocal discipline should not be imposed; and respondent’s D.C. Bar R. XI, § 14(g) affidavit filed on August 9, 2021; and it appearing that respondent has not filed a response, it is
ORDERED that Rudolph W. Giuliani is hereby disbarred from the practice of law in the District of Columbia, nunc pro tunc to August 9, 2021.
That July 25, 2024 order can be found here.
You know what I'm gonna do next, right?
Yep:
The Referee found that on November 25, 2020, in violation of rules 4.1, 8.4(c), 8.4(d), and 8.4(h), respondent falsely and dishonestly claimed to Pennsylvania state legislators that in Philadelphia during the 2020 Presidential election, many thousands of votes were cast in the names of dead people.
Respondent stipulated that “[m]any thousands of votes were not cast in the names of dead people in Philadelphia during the 2020 election.” Further, the Referee found that respondent knew, or should have known, that on November 11, 2020, Philadelphia Commissioner Al Schmidt, a Republican, made a televised statement in which he criticized the allegations of fraud as having no basis in fact and specifically concluded that the investigations regarding dead voters had led nowhere.
The date of the violation: November 25, 2020.
Again, yep. That was Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano's hearing on election irregularities:
The hearing on election irregularities in Gettysburg was historic. @PASenateGOP @SenatorArgall pic.twitter.com/DouU5fbkLs
— Senator Doug Mastriano (@SenMastriano) November 26, 2020
Interesting thing, if you go to Sen Mastriano's official page and look for the link to the meeting, you get this:
Oops! That page can’t be found.
And searching for the name "Giuliani" also comes up empty.
Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place, perhaps it's a glitch.
But if neither is the case, did Doug Mastriano scrub the references to the disbarred Giuliani and that November 2020 hearing from his webpage?
Any comment (or corrections) for the blog, Senator?
