Posted on 06/24/2021 8:51:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
Rudy Giuliani’s law license has been suspended.
In a ruling handed down by the New York State Supreme Court Thursday, the state’s Attorney Grievance Committee successfully moved to have the former New York mayor’s license suspended. Specifically, Giuliani’s actions related to his defense of former President Donald Trump were to blame, according to the court.
“We conclude that there is uncontroverted evidence that respondent communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign in connection with Trump’s failed effort at reelection in 2020,” the court found. “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. We conclude that respondent’s conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the practice of law.”
Among the violations the court cited was Giuliani’s repeated false claim of voter fraud in Pennsylvania.
From the court ruling:
Respondent repeatedly stated that in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania more absentee ballots came in during the election than were sent out before the election. The factual “proof” he claimed supported his conclusion was that although Pennsylvania sent out only 1,823,148 absentee ballots before the election, 2,589,242 million absentee ballots were then counted in the election. This factual statement regarding the number of ballots mailed out before the election was simply untrue. The true facts are that 3.08 million absentee ballots were mailed out before the general election, which more than accounted for the over 2.5 million mail-in ballots that were actually tallied. Notwithstanding the true facts, respondent repeatedly advanced false statements that there were 600,000 to 700,000 fabricated mail-in ballots, which were never sent to voters in advance of the election.
The court noted six instances in which Giuliani repeated this claim, including on his radio show, Steve Bannon’s podcast, and in a meeting before before Michigan’s House Oversight committee.
This story is breaking.
“There is a ulterior motive at work here and it’s not about Rudy..........................”
Well, I agree. It’s not only about Rudy.... The Fascist Left.
They still are!
Kaitlin waking up?
She better watch her six.
“I have no idea of Rudy’s information but EVERYBODY with a brain knows full well PA was STOLEN as were the other states.”
100% agreed.
PA’s GOP is basically loaded with 2000 era Democrats. They’re mostly worthless. The only good thing about them is that they have a herd mentality ... if a few get the ball rolling on an audit, the rest *should* follow. I guarantee you that a sizable majority in this state are 100% pissed off about everything dealing with our local, state, and federal governments.
If PA somehow manages to get an audit going, I will PAY THEM to help out. I know in my bones that this state went to Trump big time, and I will NOT be shocked to learn that this state has been voting conservative for some time.
I’ve frigging had it personally ... I always expected to be impressed with the DS fraud machine ... after seeing what they did election night 2020, I can only conclude that they are rank amateurs and only succeed thanks to our communist media.
He didn’t lie.
But punishing lawyers for lying? What???
Yes, the Court of Appeals is the highest court in NY state, not the Supreme court.
If that’s the new standard then every defense lawyer in NY should probably loose their law license.
“”The factual “proof” he claimed supported his conclusion was that although Pennsylvania sent out only 1,823,148 absentee ballots before the election, 2,589,242 million absentee ballots were then counted in the election. This factual statement regarding the number of ballots mailed out before the election was simply untrue. The true facts are that 3.08 million absentee ballots were mailed out before the general election.”
Facts according to who?
I have a sneaking suspicion that the absentee totals were changed by the SOS after Giuliani began making his claims.
But I guess we’ll just have to take the election officials word for it.
If that's the new standard, then there's no attorneys left in this country.
And if he supposedly lied to courts, "demonstrably", then where's the perjury charge/conviction?
Waiting to hear them indict Trump just to mess with him.
Just curious ... do you think the 2020 election was a farce, or do you think it was on the up and up?
I’m not asking to attack you ... I’m simply curious. I don’t care what you think either way ... you’re entitled to your opinion.
To me, this entire “legal document” reads as if it was written by a political operative with one mission ... destroy Guiliani. Sure it has facts, but the left LOVES to state facts while omitting facts that may make one question their claim.
Regarding the requested vs returned ballots, yes, his numbers do not correspond with actual totals ... now. At the time he made the statement, there may have very well been an incorrect number posted on the website. The author of the document you linked makes hint at this, but dismisses it outright due to Guiliani not pointing out who made the claim, lack of screenshots of the total, and a couple of other nonsense things that read more like a Snopes “fact check” (basically speculation written as fact).
As for the claims that he was talking out of both sides of his mouth ... those excerpts need to be longer to evaluate the entire context of the conversation. I could take 4 sentences worth of discussion between you and someone about anything and spin it all sorts of ways if I wanted.
The left has attempted to destroy so many people with 30 second video clips presented by breathless, fake media talking heads and other human garbage. Those clips are basically worthless w/o seeing the entire context in which the statements were made (many on the right do this too ... its ridiculous).
Why aren’t they linking to entire discussions? All of that stuff they transcribed was recorded. Why just post a few sentences from a dialog that was a LOT longer than what was presented?
At any rate, I think this little stunt may give Giuliani a way to present evidence of fraud in court now ... at least I hope that’s the case. If they want to suspend his law license over this, they had better be certain that there wasn’t any fraud.
A loose cannon just got looser.
..we have come a long way from the Rudy war which split FR in the ‘08 campaign.
Rudy is NY’s greatest mayor and one DJT’s most loyal friends. His investigation of the Bidens and work on election fraud is heroic.
We will see the his vindication soon...
Adam Schiff’s law license remains untouched.
It’s obvious that Rudy’s real crime is supporting President Trump. I’m surprised with your vast intellect you are not able to deduce that here. Rudy has been targeted numerous times by partisan Democrats. You might want to “READ” up on the last FIVE YEARS before attacking others for ignorance.
Well, because THEIR lawyers don’t lie.
“Rudy Giuliani’s Law License Suspended Over ‘Demonstrably False’ Statements”
Seems to me if “demonstrably false” political statements made by politicians who happen to be attorneys is the criteria used for disbarment, the nation’s lawyer politicians can wave bye bye to their law license
As commented in another thread:
These investigative and disciplinary organs in the professional fields of law and medicine exist to intimidate, terrorize, and persecute political undesirables. Any later-arriving information that exonerates the people they target will not embarrass, disgrace, or discredit any of these organs, but rather will only result in these organs shifting, pivoting, changing their direction and changing their focus and emphasis, and quietly disposing of the documentary products of their earlier work directly down the memory hole.
You’re correct. Supreme Court in NY is the trial court. The Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Coury above that, and then at the top, the Court of Appeals.
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The jurisdiction of each court is established either by Article VI of the New York State Constitution or by statute. The courts of original jurisdiction, or trial courts, hear cases in the first instance, and the appellate courts hear and determine appeals from the decision of the trial courts.
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Court of Appeals
The Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York State, hears cases on appeal from the other appellate courts and, in some instances, from the courts of original jurisdiction. In most cases, its review is limited to questions of law.
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There are four Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Court, one in each of the state’s four judicial departments. The Appellate Divisions hear appeals concerning civil and criminal cases.
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In the First and Second Departments, Appellate Terms have been established to hear appeals from criminal and civil cases originating in the Criminal and Civil Courts of the City of New York, and in the Second Department also from civil and criminal cases originating in District, City, Town and Village Courts.
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Attorneys for Children Program
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Mental Hygiene Legal Service Program
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If and when there is ever a true audit of the voting in PA, these folks are gonna have egg all over their faces.
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