Rudy Giuliani Suspended From Practicing Law for Pro-Trump Election Lies

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who became one of former-president Donald Trump’s fiercest allies, is in hot water. In a decision handed down from an appellate court, Giuliani is facing an interim suspension of his license to practice law as a result of things he said while he was working the 2020 election for Trump.

“We conclude that there is uncontroverted evidence that respondent 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 decision reads.

“These 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 decision continues. “We conclude that respondent’s conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the practice of law, pending further proceedings before the Attorney Grievance Committee.”

The per curiam (unanimous) decision comes out of the Appellate Division for New York Supreme Court’s First Judicial District. Along with the State Supreme Court’s Appellate Divisions, the Attorney Grievance Committee (AGC) governs lawyers’ conduct in New York. That committee filed the petition seeking Giuliani’s immediate suspension, and now the appellate court has ruled: Giuliani is suspended.

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The decision to suspend an attorney like Giuliani is a “serious remedy” taken only when it’s “immediately necessary to protect the public,” and it comes as he is under investigation by the AGC for alleged misconduct — a laundry list of lies he told about the 2020 election. According to the New York Times, Giuliani’s lawyers contend that he is not an immediate danger to the public and believe their client will be reinstated at a hearing.

Giuliani was the mayor of New York during the September 11, 2001 attacks and became a household name as “America’s Mayor.” But before he was elected mayor in the early ’90s, he had made a name for himself in the ’80s as a federal prosecutor who took down mafia bosses. It looked like Giuliani had a shot at the Republican nomination for president in 2008, but it didn’t pan out, and then he fell off the public radar until he officially teamed up with Trump in 2018.

Since then, there’s been the Four Seasons Total Landscaping fiasco, melting hair dye, alleged fart noises, and a lot of talk about Ukraine. In April, the FBI raided his home.

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