D.C. bar committee recommends disbarring Giuliani over the effort to reverse Trump's loss

A bar discipline committee in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, recommended disbarring former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani after concluding that he likely violated at least one professional rule while pursuing then-President Donald Trump's legal effort to overturn President Biden's 2020 election win in Pennsylvania. D.C. Bar counsel Phil Fox, who investigated the case and called for the most severe punishment against Giuliani, argued that Giuliani's rushed lawsuits seeking to throw out hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania votes with no direct evidence of fraud posed "a fundamental harm to the fabric of the country that could well be irreparable." Giuliani's lawyer said disbarring Giuliani would "chill" other lawyers, arguing that a less severe punishment like a letter of reprimand was more appropriate.