Donald Trump’s attorney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been suspended by the New York State Supreme Court. He will no longer be able to practice law there until further notice, for having made a series of false statements on the presidential election of November 2020.
The documents on file do not specify who seized the Attorney Grievance Committee, at the origin of the procedure, but according to the New York Times it would be “dozens” of New York lawyers. leading Yorkers.
After the American presidential election of November 3, 2020, Rudy Giuliani became the symbol of Donald Trump’s fight to try to invalidate, without presenting any tangible elements, the results of the election, which gave his opponent Joe Biden the winner. . The former mayor of New York (1994-2001) pleaded, without success, before the courts of several key states to obtain the cancellation of the ballot.
The committee recalled that the 77-year-old lawyer had notably suggested, before a Pennsylvania court, that the election had been the subject of fraud, when he had only seized this same court on questions techniques. He was also accused of having claimed that thousands of bulletins linked to deceased persons had been counted in Pennsylvania, an allegation never substantiated.
Attack on the legitimacy of the election
The committee also refers to accusations made by Rudy Giuliani about the polls in Georgia and Arizona.
The seriousness of Rudy Giuliani’s faults cannot be overstated, the Court wrote in a decision handed down on Thursday. . Biden”, continued the five magistrates who compose it.
“False statements are intended to erode confidence in our elections and in government generally,” the ruling reads. When they are the work of a lawyer, they “tarnish the reputation of the entire profession”.
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