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Yesterday,
Rudy
Giuliani
got
disbarred.
Again.
And
in
the
most
Rudy
Giuliani
way
possible.
In
a
one-page
order,
the
DC
Court
of
Appeals
noted
that
it
had
ordered
him
on
July
25
“to
show
cause
why
reciprocal
discipline
should
not
be
imposed”
after
America’s
erstwhile
Mayor
was
relieved
of
his
license
to
practice
law
in
the
state
of
New
York.
Giuliani
was
apparently
preoccupied
stumbling
into
and
out
of
bankruptcy
and
generally
flopping
around
the
federal
docket
like
a
beached
orca
as
he
desperately
attempts
to
fend
off
the
$148
million
judgment
in
favor
of
Ruby
Freeman
and
Shaye
Moss,
the
Atlanta
poll
workers
he
defamed.
And
so
Rudy
just
didn’t
both
to
respond
to
the
show
cause
order.
Under
local
precedent,
“The
imposition
of
identical
discipline
when
the
respondent
fails
to
object
should
be
close
to
automatic,
with
minimum
review
by
both
the
Board
and
this
court.”
“[I]t
appearing
that
respondent
has
not
filed
a
response,
it
is
ORDERED
that
Rudolph
W.
Giuliani
is
hereby
disbarred
from
the
practice
of
law
in
the
District
of
Columbia,
nunc
pro
tunc
to
August
9,
2021,”
the
three-judge
panel
wrote
yesterday.
It’s
an
anticlimactic
end
for
the
once-storied
US
Attorney
for
the
Southern
District
of
New
York.
Giuliani
emerged
from
failed
runs
for
senate
and
president
with
some
shred
of
his
dignity
intact,
and
managed
to
eke
out
a
living
endorsing
whichever
reverse
mortgage
or
gold
futures
advertisers
would
have
him,
before
being
“rescued”
by
Trump
in
his
rise
to
the
presidency.
Giuliani
hoped
for
a
job
in
the
Trump
administration,
perhaps
as
secretary
of
state
or
attorney
general.
Those
posts
never
materialized,
but
his
proximity
to
power
did
permit
Giuliani
to
make
a
nice
living
for
the
the
first
three
years
of
the
Trump
administration
whoring
himself
as
a
“security
consultant”
from
cushy
offices
housed
inside
Greenberg
Traurig.
That
association
soured
in
2018
after
Giuliani
admitted
on
air
with
Sean
Hannity
that
Cohen
had
paid
hush
money
to
Stormy
Daniels
and
“funneled”
the
reimbursement
through
his
law
firm
—
something
he
insisted
was
perfectly
normal
and
routine.
But
Rudy
was
still
able
to
rent
himself
out
to
overseas
strongmen,
and
he
got
to
go
on
TV
as
the
president’s
personal
lawyer.
So
he
didn’t
seem
to
mind
much.
Things
really
went
off
the
rails
in
year
four
when
Rudy
decided
he’d
“help”
his
benefactor
by
traipsing
around
Ukraine
in
pursuit
of
dirt
on
Joe
Biden
and
his
son,
Hunter.
After
steering
Trump
into
his
first
impeachment
—
“Do
us
a
favor,
though!”
—
Giuliani
set
about
laying
the
seeds
for
the
second
as
he
strove
to
overturn
Biden’s
electoral
victory.
This
finally
proved
to
the
seed
of
his
own
professional
undoing,
as
Giuliani
flogged
lies
about
fraud
and
pressured
elected
officials
to
steal
Biden’s
electoral
votes
or
try
to
pass
off
fraudulent
ones.
Giuliani’s
only
outing
in
court
on
Trump’s
behalf
was
an
ignominious
disaster,
with
the
attorney
seemingly
flummoxed
by
basic
legal
questions
from
US
District
Judge
Matthew
Brann.
“Maybe
I
don’t
understand
what
you
mean
by
strict
scrutiny,”
he
wondered,
before
deciding
that
he’d
like
“the
normal
one.”
The
efforts
to
overturn
democracy
garnered
him
multiple
bar
complaints.
He
was
suspended
in
New
York
in
2021
and
permanently
disbarred
there
in
July.
DC
moved
to
disbar
him
reciprocally,
and
after
initially
resisting,
he
appears
to
have
simply
wandered
off.
Ah
well,
we’ll
always
have
Rudy
Coffee,
or
at
least
until
Freeman
and
Moss
seize
it
anyway.