Attorney disciplinary committee says Giuliani violated ethics rules with 2020 election fraud claims
Source: CNN
False election fraud claims that Rudy Giuliani made when he was representing former President Donald Trumps campaign in 2020 should make the former New York mayor liable for professional sanctions, an attorney disciplinary committee said Thursday.
The decision by the hearing committee for the DC Bars Board on Professional Responsibility is non-binding. After another round of hearings in front of the committee, the proceedings then move to the board and eventually to DCs local court of appeals, the final arbiter on whether Giuliani should be sanctioned.
But the committees decision represents a significant step forward in efforts to hold Trump attorneys accountable for their willingness to use the courts to promote his unsubstantiated voter fraud narrative.
Robert Bernius, the chair of the hearing committee, said the DC Bars disciplinary counsel who brought the ethics charges, Hamilton Fox, had proven at least one of the charges with clear and convincing evidence.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/politics/rudy-giuliani-ethics-hearing/index.html
no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)Disbar his ass!!!
agingdem
(7,850 posts)without corrupt legal eagle Rudy to plead her bullshit stolen election case???
dutch777
(3,027 posts)And even if they are punished by the Bar (or in Guiliani's case the local bar...no more martinis for YOU!) they can still be TV and radio talking heads and write whackadoodle books for sale to all the other whackadoodles. I like the Dominion approach, sue sue sue!
Lonestarblue
(10,024 posts)onetexan
(13,043 posts)Martin68
(22,822 posts)republianmushroom
(13,619 posts)ancianita
(36,108 posts)All it really means is that his license remains suspended. Justice, but kinda lukewarm justice, imo.