#Rudy Giuliani’s law license suspended in New York

Rudy Giuliani’s law license was temporarily suspended on Thursday by a panel of New York judges who found he made “false and misleading statements” related to voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

The ruling from the appeals court said there was “uncontroverted evidence” Giuliani made false statements while he was acting as legal counsel for former President Donald Trump.

“These false statements were made to improperly bolster respondent’s narrative that due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client,” the ruling states.

“We conclude that respondent’s conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the practice of law, pending further proceedings before the Attorney Grievance Committee,” they added.

Giuliani, 77, made a number of false allegations about voter fraud after Trump lost the presidential election to Joe Biden, including on radio programs and in other public statements, the five-judge panel ruled.

The jurists highlighted a number of examples when Giuliani leveled false claims about the number of absentee ballots counted in Pennsylvania after Biden had carried the state, which Trump won in 2016.

“Respondent made these false claims during his November 8, 2020 radio program, Uncovering the Truth with Rudy Giuliani & Dr. Maria Ryan, during a November 25, 2020 meeting of the Republican State Senate Majority Policy Committee in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania … and he repeated it during an episode of Steve Bannon’s the War Room: Pandemic podcast on December 24, 2020,” the ruling states.

Giuliani compared the suspension to Soviet Communism.

“It’s a complete invasion of my first amendment rights and my rights as an attorney, I’m allowed to have a client,” Giuliani told The Post.

“President Trump is not allowed to have a lawyer, of course it’s a partisan hit. I didn’t do anything wrong. There’s nothing I said that a witness didn’t tell me. We’re getting to be like East Germany,” he added.

The ruling on the temporary suspension was handed down by a panel with the New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, First Judicial Department and entered on Thursday. 

Giuliani will have the right to request a post-suspension hearing, which he will have to request in the next 20 days.