The D.C. Bar's disciplinary counsel is calling for Rudy Giuliani's disbarment in D.C. after finding he violated attorney practice while contesting the 2020 election.
Giuliani's attorney, John Leventhal, said Thursday that Giuliani's service to the nation mitigated the need for the District of Columbia to disbar him.
"Let's take politics out of this equation and treat Mr. Giuliani like any other lawyer," said Leventhal.Fox called Giuliani's previous service as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and as"admirable," but told the disciplinary committee it did not justify a sanction less than disbarment.
President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks during a Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee public hearing, Nov. 25, 2020, in Gettysburg, Pa."It's like it's two different people," Fox said during the hearing. "There's the person who responded the way very few people could have responded to 9/11 ... and there's the person who tried to undermine the legitimacy of a presidential election without a basis to do so.
"I would like to personally object to Mr. Fox's attack on me as having tried to undermine American democracy when there's not a single fact in the record to support that argument," Giuliani responded as Leventhal and another defense attorney, Barry Kamins, urged him to stop. "It is a typical unethical cheap attack."
A decision from the disciplinary committee is expected in late February or early March. The D.C. Court of Appeals would make a final decision on whether Giuliani would be disbarred, a determination that could have consequences on his ability to practice law in other places.
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