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DC Court Yanks Rudy's Law License After New York Suspension

And nothing of value was lost.

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Yesterday the DC Court of Appeals issued a per curiam order disqualifying Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in the District while his license is suspended in New York.

“[T]his proceeding is hereby stayed pending the resolution of the disciplinary matter in New York,” the DC court wrote, after their New York counterparts yanked his license citing “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.”

And although the matter is largely pro forma — DC is known for aggressively purging attorneys facing discipline in other jurisdictions — it’s clearly upsetting America’s Former Mayor.

“We stand together, in truth,” he tweeted, in response to a supporter’s exhortation that “EVERYONE should be standing behind Rudy in this fight.”

He’s also getting hot and hashtag heavy with that weird guy from Newsmax who tweets about smoking a joint in Kentucky and waking up four days later in Nairobi.

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Rudy went on to retweet well wishes from his pal Bernie Kerik, who demanded to know “Where is the @gop, @GOPLeader @GOPChairwoman @LeaderMcConnell for him? #RINOs #Cowards.” Because what better character reference than an admitted tax cheat who used an apartment set aside for 9/11 first responders for assignations with his mistresses?

Although in a week when your biggest client stiffs you and a retired judge is combing through your emails because the feds raided your office in an investigation of alleged foreign lobbying hijinks, getting disbarred in a second jurisdiction is probably the least of your worries.

Especially when you’re very busy offering your opinion on the important news of the day.

Here’s Rudy actually getting corrected by a Newsmax host, who pointed out that his hypothetical antitrust claim against big tech had already been tossed out of court last week when the FTC and 40 state attorneys general tried and failed to break up Facebook and unwind deals from 2012 and 2014 that allowed it to buy up competitor companies and increase market share.

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“But there was no standing, the usual excuse the court gives when it doesn’t want to hear something,” said the esteemed former counselor, failing to specify who exactly has standing if not the FTC.

“I’ll give you a perfect case that should have been brought, I think: Parler. Parler’s business was destroyed by a restraint of trade between two or three of them,” he said, before launching into a disquisition on his own amazing follower count on Twitter, which he mistakenly called Instagram.

In point of fact, Parler did allege antitrust violations when it sued Amazon in January, claiming that the web-server had colluded with Twitter to get rid of a rival company. Getting zero traction — because the claim was hot garbage — Parler dismissed the federal suit in March, only to refile an even sillier claim in Washington state court.

All of which is a long way of saying that the former head of the SDNY may have lost a step or two since he took on the Five Families in 1985, and the legal profession will probably survive without Rudy Giuliani’s participation in it. We’ll limp along somehow. At least we’ve still got Sidney Powell.

Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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