After some attorneys fled from Donald Trump as he pursues ways to overturn the election results after being defeated by President-elect Joe Biden, the former reality show star named former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani to spearhead those efforts. The lawsuits that have been filed by team Trump are frivolous as the votes just aren’t there for the outgoing president. Still, he’s been nipping at the heels of officials in states Biden won, and he’s been basically attempting a coup while denying the president-elect to receive intelligence briefings and a peaceful transition of power.
On Friday, New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr. — a Democrat — filed bar complaints against Giuliani and other attorneys representing the Trump campaign, asking that their law licenses be revoked for having “participated in frivolous lawsuits” and using the courts to “assault public confidence in the United States electoral system.”
The complaints seek “the disbarment of Rudolph Giuliani and 22 other lawyers representing Donald Trump in his attempts to overturn the election” and were filed with bar authorities in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania, according to Pascrell.
🚨 I’ve just filed legal complaints with the AZ, MI, NV, NY, and PA bars against Rudy Giuliani and 22 other lawyers seeking their disbarments for filing frivolous lawsuits and trying to help Trump steal the election and dismantle democracy. pic.twitter.com/0kd3PN6q1h
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@PascrellforNJ) November 20, 2020
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Here is a copy of my complaint to the New York State judicial conduct body calling for Rudy Giuliani’s law license to be stripped. Similar letters were sent to four other states against Trump lawyers. pic.twitter.com/NkwfmYVOnM
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@PascrellforNJ) November 20, 2020
“Mr. Giuliani has participated in filing a series of absurd lawsuits seeking to overturn the will of the voters in these states and has caused irreversible damage to public trust in the fair administration of our elections,” the complaint states. “The egregious pattern of behavior by Mr. Giuliani to effectuate Mr. Trump’s sinister arson is a danger not just to our legal system but is also unprecedented in our national life. In carrying out that perversion, Mr. Giuliani has clearly violated the New York Rules of Professional Conduct he swore to uphold and should face the severest sanction your body can mete out: revocation of his law license.”
Whether that will go anywhere isn’t clear, but Giuliani and his cohorts are holding the United States hostage to pander to a malignant narcissist.
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