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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,345 posts)
Thu Dec 15, 2022, 11:53 AM Dec 2022

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 Trump’s 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 Bar’s 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 DC’s local court of appeals, the final arbiter on whether Giuliani should be sanctioned.

But the committee’s 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 Bar’s 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

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Attorney disciplinary committee says Giuliani violated ethics rules with 2020 election fraud claims (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 OP
Excellent!! no_hypocrisy Dec 2022 #1
But what will KKKari Lake do agingdem Dec 2022 #2
Such a surprise! But I bet, Guiliani, Powell, etc. will die of old age before any real punishment dutch777 Dec 2022 #3
Every Trump attorney who pushed the election lie should be disbarred. Lonestarblue Dec 2022 #4
Old news. Question is what will they do about it? Anything short of disbarment would be a disgrace. onetexan Dec 2022 #5
Disbar the fucker and clap him in irons. Martin68 Dec 2022 #6
Tsk Tsk Rudy republianmushroom Dec 2022 #7
I fail to see how a DC Bar's "non-binding" decision or appeals court's "sanctions" means disbarring. ancianita Dec 2022 #8

agingdem

(7,850 posts)
2. But what will KKKari Lake do
Thu Dec 15, 2022, 12:00 PM
Dec 2022

without corrupt legal eagle Rudy to plead her bullshit stolen election case???

dutch777

(3,027 posts)
3. Such a surprise! But I bet, Guiliani, Powell, etc. will die of old age before any real punishment
Thu Dec 15, 2022, 12:05 PM
Dec 2022

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!

ancianita

(36,108 posts)
8. I fail to see how a DC Bar's "non-binding" decision or appeals court's "sanctions" means disbarring.
Thu Dec 15, 2022, 02:04 PM
Dec 2022

All it really means is that his license remains suspended. Justice, but kinda lukewarm justice, imo.

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