Rudy Giuliani’s NY Law License Suspended over Election Claims

Attorney Ravi Batra Tweets “Expected and needed. Law abhors lies, and yearns for Truth.”

NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is suspended from practicing law in New York after court officials found he made numerous “demonstrably false and misleading” claims about the 2020 election. A blistering 33-page decision released Thursday, June 24, bars Giuliani from practicing law “immediately.” It details a trail of outlandish and completely refuted claims Giuliani made on behalf of former President Donald Trump, who sought to overturn his loss in the presidential election. “For the reasons that follow, 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 decision states. “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.” The decision reads as a refutation of the so-called “Big Lie” that Trump, not President Joe Biden, would have won the 2020 election if not for massive voter fraud.

Giuliani, in the days and weeks following the election, spread those false claims far and wide to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Biden’s election, as detailed in the decision. In just one example, Giuliani claimed at various times “that 65,000 or 66,000 or 165,00 [sic] underage voters” illegally voted in the Georgia 2020 election, the decision states. This was debunked by Georgia officials who compared all people who voted in the election to their full birthdays, according to the decision.

“The audit revealed that there were zero (0) underage voters in the 2020 election,” the decision states. “While a small number of voters (four) had requested a ballot prior to turning 18, they all turned 18 by the time the election was held in November 2020.”

Giuliani’s claims over the election prompted a disciplinary review by the state’s Attorney Grievance Committee that ultimately led to his suspension. Court officials found Giuliani presented an immediate threat to the public interest, especially as the country is “torn apart” by doubts over the legitimacy of Biden’s election.

“One only has to look at the ongoing present public discord over the 2020 election, which erupted into violence, insurrection and death on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol, to understand the extent of the damage that can be done when the public is misled by false information about the elections,” the decision states. “The AGC contends that respondent’s misconduct directly inflamed tensions that bubbled over into the events of January 6, 2021 in this nation’s Capitol. Respondent’s response is that no causal nexus can be shown between his conduct and those events. We need not decide any issue of “causal nexus” to understand that the falsehoods themselves cause harm.”Giuliani’s son Andrew Giuliani blasted the decision in a Twitter video. He didn’t refute the judges’ detailed debunking of his father’s claims, but instead argued the decision itself was a partisan attack.

“This is going after one of President Trump’s closest allies, that’s exactly what this is,” he said. “And any American that does not believe that they are just biased.”

By the end, the decision used one of Giuliani’s own statements to justify his suspension.

“I don’t know what’s more serious than being denied your right to vote in a democracy,” Giuliani said in an election court hearing, according to the decision.

” We agree,” the court officials wrote. “It is the very reason why espousing false factual information to large segments of the public as a means of discrediting the rights of legitimate voters is so immediately harmful to it and warrants interim suspension from the practice of law.”

The Indian Panorama reached out to the eminent attorney Ravi Batra for his comment on the suspension of Giulian’s NY Law license. Mr. Batra shared with the publication his Tweet.