Rudy Giuliani Suspended from Practicing Law in Washington, D.C.

Rudy Giuliani’s legal license has been suspended in Washington, D.C., following his temporary suspension in New York for spreading election lies, while the state court system investigates his case further.

According to disciplinary court documents, the appeals court in DC ruled Giuliani will be barred from practicing law in the city “pending the outcome” of his case in New York.

Giuliani doesn’t practice law in court daily and hadn’t for several years before assisting Donald Trump in an unsuccessful legal bid to overturn popular votes in Pennsylvania and other states in 2020. However, the suspension of his law license is a severe setback for the former Manhattan US attorney and political figure, who was formerly regarded as a capable and formidable legal force.

In its ruling, the New York appellate court concluded that “there is uncontroverted evidence” that Giuliani “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign in connection with Trump’s failed effort at reelection in 2020.”

The court wrote that Giuliani’s “conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the practice of law.”

Following that verdict, the former mayor of New York City contended that his remarks were not a threat to the public, telling Newsmax at the time: “I made all those statements — not a single one of them led to a protest, a riot, an incident, an anything,”

He said, “Obviously, those statements do not have the impact of creating danger.” The New York appellate court wrote that Giuliani’s “false statements were made to improperly bolster respondent’s narrative that due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client.”

The former mayor’s statements at news conferences, state legislative hearings, TV appearances, radio broadcasts, and podcasts, as well as one court appearance, were cited by the court.

Despite Giuliani’s assurances to the court that he would “exercise personal discipline” and refrain from making further statements about the election in his capacity as a lawyer, the court found that he had continued to make false statements since the application for suspension of his license was filed.