New York, the Leading Act in Our Clownshow of Democracy
On June 24, 2021, former New York (NY) mayor and counsel for President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, received an interim suspension from practicing law in NY for publicly discussing election fraud and one in-court statement challenging the 2020 presidential election [*1], a shot across the bow to future lawyers who might speak publicly about election fraud, let alone choose to fight against it in court. Ostensibly, this was done for "making a false statement of fact or law to a tribunal," "knowingly making a false statement of fact or law to a third person" in representation of a client, and "engag[ing] in fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation," of which "misrepresentation" can mean "partially true, but misleading statements or omissions." In Giuliani's suspension, the State Supreme Court of New York relied on five statements: (1) Giuliani claimed, in public speech, that 1,823,148 mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania were mailed out when the offi