Bad day to be Rudy Giuliani

A committee for the DC bar has formally recommended today that Rudy Giuliani be disbarred for his conduct in relation to the 2020 election. Giuliani is under threat of federal criminal indictment for that same behavior and just did a proffer interview with Jack Smith because he’s afraid he’ll end up in prison. So at this point disbarment feels like almost a sideshow. But it’ll be interesting to see how Giuliani plays this.

Days ago, another Trump 2020 election attorney named Lin Wood voluntarily gave up his law license ahead of his own disbarment hearing. At the time it felt like perhaps Wood was forfeiting his bar fight because it was too much of a sideshow and a distraction from his real legal problems. Although Wood’s name hasn’t yet been reported as a target in Jack Smith’s probe, every other attorney who behaved similarly to Wood – including Giuliani and Sidney Powell – is reportedly on Jack Smith’s hot seat this week.

So we’ll see what Rudy Giuliani does with this DC disbarment. Will he fight it, and invoke his usual conspiracy theories as a way of convincing himself that he’s going to magically get off the hook? Or will he simply forfeit his law license in DC, as he deals with far bigger matters like going to prison in Jack Smith’s probe? Stay tuned.