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Why Hasnt Rudy Giuliani Been Disbarred Yet?
Acting as an attorney is a privilege. Wheres the evidence that Giuliani has earned that distinction?
By Scott Pilutik
Nov 20, 20193:10 PM
Even before he replaced Michael Cohen as President Donald Trumps doomed fixer, even before these impeachment proceedings began, lawyers were asking why Rudy Giuliani was still calling himself an attorney. He regularly inflicted real carnage on the legal profession with every televised appearance accompanied by the Attorney moniker beneath his bobbing, bug-eyed head, arms flailing as he apoplectically railed about unfounded conspiracies and contradicted himself seconds later. Lawyers are often many things at once, but Giulianis TV clownery falls well outside the definitions youll find in the ABA guide, or New Yorks Rules of Professional Conduct, which both describe the attorneys role as one of advising, counseling, representing, drafting, negotiating. More sagaciousless salaciouspublic spectacle.
Then Giuliani joined the presidents personal legal team, assuming a role that so perverts the legal profession that the question is no longer Why is Giuliani still calling himself an attorney?, but rather, Why hasnt Giuliani been disbarred already?
In service of the president, Giuliani outsourced dirt-digging to Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. In early October, both were indicted in part for their role in ginning up a nonsensical basis to oust U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, which cleared the way for Giulianis even dirtier work in Ukraine: lobbying Ukraines president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to publicly announce an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden and Burisma, presently the central issue of the Houses ongoing impeachment inquiry. Despite being as key a witness as a witness can be, Giuliani has refused a House subpoena to discuss his role, calling the impeachment inquiry unconstitutional, baseless, and illegitimate.
Besides facing a potential obstruction charge stemming from his refusal to participate in the Houses impeachment inquiry, Giulianis Ukrainian misadventure is now the subject of three seemingly related federal investigations, covering various aspects of his relationship to Parnas and Fruman, his failure to register as a foreign agent, potential campaign finance violations, and his own business ties in Ukraine. Theres also a counterintelligence investigation to discover what role foreign governments have had in influencing Giulianis conduct. Former national security adviser John Boltons characterization of Giuliani as a hand grenade that would blow everyone up is looking less like hyperbole and more like an understatement each day. Giuliani is the second biggest elephant in the congressional hearing room next to Trump: physically absent but omnipresent, whether its George Kent testifying to Giulianis campaign of lies or Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker claiming to have attempted to coax Giuliani off the roof of particularly ludicrous conspiracies. In Wednesday mornings impeachment hearing, Sondland seemingly spoke for the entire bus now parked atop the presidents attorney: We did not want to work with Mr. Giuliani.
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Why Hasn't Rudy Giuliani Been Disbarred Yet? (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2019
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SunSeeker
(51,520 posts)1. K & R
TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)2. Those aren't bars, they are his teeth.
Easy to get the two confused, though.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)3. LOL😆
Cartaphelius
(868 posts)4. A question better answered by the
schisters lounging in the American Bar Association and the yellow pages.