A District of Columbia disciplinary panel has recommended that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani should be disbarred over a lawsuit he filed challenging the 2020 election results.
A hearing committee of the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility said in a 38-page decision (pdf) that Mr. Giuliani, who was once former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, violated two legal ethics rules in what it described as a “frivolous” lawsuit.
The board’s decision stems from a lawsuit Mr. Giuliani filed challenging Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results that was ultimately rejected by several courts. The lawsuit sought to invalidate hundreds of thousands of votes following Mr. Trump’s defeat in the swing state….