Former New York City Mayor and ally of former President Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in Washington, D.C. by a federal appeals court on Monday over his efforts to expose what he thought at the time was election fraud in the 2020 presidential race, and which Democrats have called "election subversion."
The action followed a recommendation in May from a disciplinary board linked to the D.C. Bar that Giuliani be disbarred.
The recommendation pointed to Giuliani's efforts to get a judge in Pennsylvania to overturn hundreds of thousands of votes in that state, citing fraud that he ultimately was not able to prove occurred.
“We conclude that disbarment is the only sanction that will protect the public, the courts, and the integrity of the legal profession, and deter other lawyers from launching similarly baseless claims in the pursuit of such wide-ranging yet completely unjustified relief,” the board wrote in May.
Giuliani is facing indictment in Georgia and Arizona for similar election efforts. He reportedly made phone calls to state leaders about resisting the transfer of power from Trump to Biden.
None of Giuliani's efforts were successful, and power was successfully transferred to Biden, but that's not enough for the vultures surrounding him and other Trump allies who sensed something fishy in the election and were trying to figure it out.
Most Trump voters know that something wasn't right about the 2020 election--even if it was "only" big tech censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story that voters said afterward would have given them pause about voting for Joe Biden.
After Biden took power, it became about trying to punish Trump and others who asked valid questions about how everything went down.
The disbarment follows one in New York State earlier this year.
In addition, Giuliani filed for bankruptcy to avoid some of the multi-million dollar civil judgements against him, but the courts dismissed his filing and accused him of trying to get out of paying.
It is a huge fall for a man who was known as "America's Mayor" for how he handled the September 11, 2001 attacks in the city.
While some of Giuliani and other Trump allies' efforts may have been misguided, they do not appear to have been malicious.
Just because they couldn't prove enough voter fraud to keep Trump president doesn't mean voter fraud didn't occur at some level, or that the election was "free and fair" the way the founding fathers intended.
Republicans should not be intimidated by these tactics, but should be even more vigilant for anything fishy this year on November 5.
