Dem Rep Demands Giuliani Lose Law License After Election Legal Battles Hit Dead End

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) filed complaints in five states on Friday demanding that Rudy Giuliani and 22 other lawyers working with the Trump campaign be disbarred for filing “frivolous” lawsuits and allegedly engaging in “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation” in their failed attempts to overturn the election results.


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This, plus a stake through the heart, would be a good 9/11 start…

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Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) filed complaints in five states on Friday demanding that Rudy Giuliani and 22 other lawyers working with the Trump campaign be disbarred for filing “frivolous” lawsuits and allegedly engaging in “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation”

Long shot, but necessary.

Kudos.

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The Post reported that Pascrell filed grievances with regulatory and disciplinary boards within the state bar associations in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Giuliani’s home state of New York.

Why’d Pascrell leave out DC, which is one of the bars ghoulsie cited as being in good standing with when he filed his pro hac vice request for PA federal court? Is there a technicality where you can’t be disbarred if you’re not current on dues? Inquiring Rudies want to know.

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Yes, disbarments are rare. But is there any precedent for what Pascrell’s complaint alleges?

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The Post noted that disbarring a lawyer happens infrequently, citing the American Bar Association’s Survey on Lawyer Discipline in 2018, which estimated that among the roughly 1.3 million active and licensed lawyers in the country, only 378 were involuntarily disbarred that year.

How many of those 378 disbarred lawyers committed treason and tried to steal an election?

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Dem Rep Demands Giuliani Lose Law License After Election Legal Battles Hit Dead End

Probably won’t hurt him much. But I am certainly on board for disbarring Lindsey Powell & Jenna Ellis.

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Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) filed complaints in five states on Friday demanding that Rudy Giuliani and 22 other lawyers working with the Trump campaign be disbarred for filing “frivolous” lawsuits and allegedly engaging in “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation” in their failed attempts to overturn the election results.

Absolutely appropriate.

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Well I’m certainly not gonna hold my breath waiting for a prominent Republican to actually pay a price for their law/ethics breaking behavior in this country that’s for sure.

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Just a guess, but I think it’s because they didn’t file any lawsuits there. So the complaint is limited to the places where they took part in cases.

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In Nevada, which is one of the five where Pascrell filed complaints against Giuliani, disbarment means that a lawyer is banned from practicing law in the state.

That’s what it means in every state.

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The Post noted that disbarring a lawyer happens infrequently, citing the American Bar Association’s Survey on Lawyer Discipline in 2018, which estimated that among the roughly 1.3 million active and licensed lawyers in the country, only 378 were involuntarily disbarred that year.

As someone who has been licensed to practice law since 1987, I am really surprised by this number because I really think it should be higher. I know of several people who have been disbarred in California.

However, there are substantial consequences when a lawyer is disbarred. In Nevada, which is one of the five where Pascrell filed complaints against Giuliani, disbarment means that a lawyer is banned from practicing law in the state.
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Um, isn’t that the universal meaning of disbarment, i.e., its very definition?

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This should be the end of Rudy’s career … KNOCKOUT !

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Rudy has made enough money from the shadow GOP funding network he can just retire to drink grappa and tuck in his shirt all day.

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In a normal world, a normal litigant would have already acquired a transcript of the hearing in the PA case and all pleadings filed since Rudy joined the case and filed a malpractice claim against Rudy.

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With the level of batsh-t crazy he’s exhibited lately, maybe Grandpa should lose his driver’s license too.

(He’s certainly lost plenty of marriage licenses.)

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Probably only need a toothpick for Half Ass Nosferatu.

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:tada:

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Sidney Powell, but I understand the confusion. Sidney is the Pat of Lindseys.

I am told that the most frequent reason for disbarment is breaching fiduciary trust, namely dipping into the client’s settlement funds. Bad or crazy lawyerin’ isn’t usually sufficient, though Nunes’ go-to attorney Stephen Biss did have his law license suspended for a year and a day. Not for any Nunes suits, yet.

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