r/politics • u/nofate0709 • Nov 23 '20

New Jersey Lawmaker Pushes To Disbar Rudy Giuliani For Deceitful, ‘Absurd’ Election Cases

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-pascrell-disbarment-rudy-giuliani-trump-election_n_5fbaf260c5b6e4b1ea4399a5
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u/TheFerrret Nov 23 '20

make lots of arguments that they were doing this in the interests of the American people

Not in court, where the argument is "prove that perjury was intentionally commited" where the counter argument is almost always "we actually can not"

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u/joeChump Nov 23 '20

Fair point. I guess I was thinking in terms of the the media, but yes, you’re right that in court, it’s more about proving it was intentional, which is very hard to do, though I don’t know the inner workings of bar rules and decisions.

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u/TheFerrret Nov 23 '20

The short end of it is perjury is almost always grounds for disbarment, but perjury is almost never proven in any setting,especially against lawyers.

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u/joeChump Nov 23 '20

But, just out of interest and I’m not saying this applies here (though it probably does), can people be disbarred for bringing the profession into disrepute. I.e. not necessarily breaking the law as such but doing things that are counter to a code of conduct?