A Journey Of Ls: Defense Attorneys Want Nothing To Do With Rudy Giuliani’s Case
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani leaves the New York Federal Courthouse on November 7, 2024, in New York City. | Source: Alex Kent / Getty
UPDATED: 8 p.m. ET, Dec. 12, 2024
Originally published April 28, 2021
The consequences of showing blind loyalty to former President Donald Trump continue to reveal themselves in the most amazing of ways.
Rudy Giuliani‘s journey of losses since he tried and failed to illegally overturn the 2020 election results by defaming Black women poll workers is showing no signs of ending anytime soon.
That truth was resoundingly punctuated on Monday after he blamed a federal judge for defense lawyers not wanting anything to do with his case.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Giuliani “told U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell that four lawyers refused to accept him as a client because they think the judge is “unreasonable and biased about Trump related matters.” the former New York City mayor told U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell that four lawyers refused to accept him as a client because they think the judge is “unreasonable and biased about Trump related matters.”
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One attorney, Giuliani wrote, called his case “a foregone conclusion” and a “no-win proposition.”
“Among other numerous reasons your handling of the (Jan. 6) cases is considered by many to be the most unnecessarily harsh,” Giuliani told Howell.
He told the judge those attorneys consider her to be “ideological rather than logical.”
In declining to represent him, Giuliani said the attorneys cited objections from their firms about the effect the case may have on their practice. This comes after two of Giuliani’s lawyers asked to be removed from the case last month, citing disagreements with their client.
It’s been a rough go for the lawyer formerly known as “America’s Mayor” who was previously hired to defend Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election and espoused debunked conspiracy theories about non-existent election fraud that helped fuel the anti-government sentiment responsible for the Capitol riots. For example, in addition to menacing Black women election workers, Giuliani made false claims about Democrats rigging the election with malfunctioning voting machines.
Since being named as a part of the Fulton County district attorney’s investigation into election interference, Giuliani has been the recipient of a seemingly neverending string of losses.
In 2022, a disciplinary panel recommended Giuliani’s disbarment stemming from his “frivolous” and “destructive” defense of “the big lie” that President Joe Biden didn’t legitimately win the 2020 election.
“[Giuliani] claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence of it,” the Board on Professional Responsibility, part of the D.C. Bar, wrote in its recommendation. “By prosecuting that destructive case Mr. Giuliani, a sworn officer of the Court, forfeited his right to practice law.”
Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives during a ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2021, in New York City. | Source: Pool / Getty
Aside from the latest trouble Giuliani has found himself in, separate investigators previously inquired for two years into whether he had any illegal dealings lobbying Ukraine officials in 2019 for information regarding Trump’s adversaries including Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The feds were also looking into whether Giuliani attempted to undermine the former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch.
Prosecutors eventually charged his Ukrainian associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, in 2019.
Yet and still, instances like finally admitting he made false claims about the 2020 election only draw further attention to Giuliani’s steady public fall from grace, much of which was already very apparent to Black communities who were privy to his inner workings after five decades of languishing in the political spotlight.
At the height of his praise, Giuliani was heralded for helping to take down New York City’s mafia bosses in the ’80s and then successfully won his bid for mayor in the 1990s. After the September 11 attacks, Giuliani was considered “America’s Mayor,” only to morph into an obstructer of democracy as one of the main lie-spreaders around Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election.
From spreading racist conspiracy theories to upholding harmful policies like stop-and-frisk in New York City, Giuliani is seemingly headed toward a different hall of fame amid desperate and disingenuous attempts at revisionist histories to save him from his continued, spiraling downfall.
Keep reading to see the fine print details of Rudy Giuliani’s ongoing journey of spectacular Ls.
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