I wrote about Rudy Giuliani’s quixotic attempts to overturn the 2020 election results here and here. I mentioned not a few times how strange it was to see any lawyer, but especially a lawyer with Giuliani’s stature, risk his law license based on such flimsy cases. Yet, he did. And, now he has been disbarred by the Washington D.C. Bar Association. Typically, once a lawyer loses his license in one jurisdiction, other states will soon follow suit. It just boggles the mind how so many lawyers were willing to throw the dice with their law licenses for such little apparent gain.

The legal world is one of the few areas in which its major actor’s verbal assurance will generally be accepted at face value. A lawyer who makes some ambiguous claim in court will generally be accorded credibility. So, it makes sense that lawyers who abuse that privilege ought to lose that privilege. Rudy Giuliani ought to know that. See AP News report here for more information.