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How Low Can Giuliani Go? Move to Lift His N.Y. Law License

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 1/12/21

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who further tarnished what remained of his legacy by urging pro-Trump radicals to engage in "trial by combat" prior to their storming the Capitol Building Jan. 6, is confronting something equally daunting, if less-lethal: trial by judges.

State Sen. Brad Hoylman announced Jan. 11 that he would file a formal complaint with the Appellate Division of the state court system asking it to revoke Mr. Giuliani's law license based on his bellicose rhetoric prior to the mob takeover of the halls of Congress, badly damaging and defacing the building and causing the death of a Capitol Police Officer who died of injuries suffered when a protester smashed him in the head with a fire extinguisher.

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